My autocorrect is going crazy these days. This paragraph should say
the other day referred to local non-migratory birds already loosely on
territory all winter, and lengthening days elicit territorial singing. Also
birds do call while speaking to each other all throughout the year. This is
Last year or maybe the year before there was a huge mortality event of woodcock
in nyc during a snowstorm. Birds can exercise different strategies when
migrating. Get there early and get best breeding territory while risking
encountering death dealing weather.
The discussion the other day
Last time I wrote on early territorial calling behavior, several people
wrote and "definitively" asserted that this breeding behavior is day
light-dependent. ...but if it is "definitively" dependent on the amount of
light in a day, then why would the woodcock be showing up a week or so
