Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandpipers and their allies constitute one of the larger bird families in Ohio. To date, 37 species have been recorded in the ...

Jon Bondura of Schuylkill Headwaters is the guest of Republican Herald outdoors editor Doyle Dietz on the Sunday, March 22, ...

Mar. 4—You can call it by its formal name, American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) or by one of its more common names which includes timberdoodle, Labrador twister, night partridge and bog sucker.

Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

In his classic A Sand County Almanac (1949), wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold described the male American woodcock’s courtship display as a “sky dance.” I call it my favorite harbinger of spring. A few ...