Recently, I turned to a book by one of my conservation heroes, Aldo Leopold. In a favorite passage of mine, Leopold found himself quite taken with one of our native birds, the humble woodcock. After seeing their acrobatic mating flights, he wrote that the American woodcock is “a refutation of the theory that the utility of a game bird is to pose gracefully on a slice of toast.”
Woodcocks
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