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Sky dance of the Woodcock : the habits and habitats of a strange little bird / by Greg Hoch.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoch, Greg, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Bur oak book.
- A bur oak book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Woodcock, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America.They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds.Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk.
- Contents:
- Anatomy and behaviors
- Sky dance
- Habitat
- Historic hunting and modern threats
- Studying woodcock
- Migration
- Thinking about dynamic landscapes
- Managing habitats.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-628-0
- OCLC:
- 1043957832
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