Woodcock

Description

The name of several birds commonly classed in the same genus as the snipes, but having a more bulky body and shorter and stronger legs than the true snipes.

Keywords

Woodcock

Galleries

Birds: W-Z

Source:

B. P. Holst The Teachers' and Pupils' Cyclopaedia (Kansas City: The Bufton Book Company, 1909)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman