There is no doubt the woodcock is a strange bird; although a wader, with a long wading bird’s bill, it frequents woodlands.

There can be few other British birds that are so steeped in mystery and folklore as the woodcock. Unusually, several of these rather suspect ‘country-tales’ are, astonishingly, true. There is no doubt ...

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