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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
... is a woodcock and a snipe the same birds...we have snipe in miss. but for sure no grouse... charlie
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Charlie, woodcock and snipe are two different game birds. As you know snipe are found in wet marshy areas, whereas the habitat of woodcock is generally damp woodlands and tag alders. A Woodcocks diet is nearly 100% earthworms, they probe with their prehensile beak into the soil for their meals. Here's a pic I took the other day of a Woodcock hen, she was on a blacktop road, probably had a nest nearby and let me approach within a couple of feet before flushing and flying off to just the other side of the road.