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Does the adorable American woodcock "peent" or "meep"?

Jennifer Sandlin
Mar 24, 2025
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I fell in love with the American woodcock—what CornellLab's All About Birds website describes as a "plump little shorebird"—at the beginning of the year, after seeing this video of the charming bird strutting its stuff, which was taken by Keith Ramos at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge and posted by the US Departm…

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