woodcock

Example Sentences

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New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Another evolutionary driver of itinerant breeding in woodcock could be predation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

The woodcock, also known as the timberdoodle, can be spotted on the ground beneath shrubbery, doing a groovy little dance.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

A bird conservation charity said it had been locked out of its Twitter account for eight days after posting several tweets about woodcock.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023

Anything that would make me appear more like a Londoner and less like a green country woodcock, I was more than willing to adopt.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood