Birding

Woodcock Walk

Wednesday, April 03, 2024
7:00pm - 9:00pm Eastern Southbury, Connecticut

Location Details

Bent of the River Audubon Center 185 East Flat Hill Road Southbury, CT 06488

185 East Flat Hill Road, Southbury, 06488, CT

Please meet Glen in the main parking lot.

Woodcock Walk

April 03, 2024 - Southbury, CT

Registration is required
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Come join us for a Woodcock Walk. Interested participants will have an opportunity to witness the amazing courtship dance of the American Woodcock at the Bent of the River Audubon Center. Also known as “timberdoodle,” the male woodcock flies to his singing grounds at sunset and gives a short, high-pitched insect-like single-note call, which he may repeat as many as 200 times in five minutes. Then he flies in a low circle about 200 feet in diameter, then climbs higher and higher, the diameter of the circle decreasing, until he is 200 to 300 feet in the air. His rapid wing beats create a musical sound as he climbs. At the apex of his flight, he sings a variable series of liquid notes.

  • Program Fee: $15.00)
  • Handicapped parking is available at the barn
  • Accessible bathroom on site
  • For questions, please contact Kate Pratt at Kathleen.Pratt@audubon.org or 203-405-9113.

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