American Woodcock - Toronto, Ontario

American Woodcock at Rosetta McClain Park 

                    American Woodcock

The American woodcock, sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, the bogsucker, the hokumpoke, and the Labrador twister, is a small shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage.

Release of an American Woodcock up by Carden