Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana–If really a woodcock hunter, you have to hunt Louisiana. As the weather gets colder and the ground freezes, woodcock migrate south, leaving northern states like Pennsylvania for ...

Ted Dick and Meadow Kouffeld-Hansen can tell you how to shoot more grouse and woodcock this fall. Both Dick and Kouffeld-Hansen are avid grouse and woodcock hunters, and they’re in the business of ...

This story, “Winging for Woodcock,” originally ran in the October 1946 issue. AS I WAS DOZING over the Sunday paper, in that blissful state of semiconsciousness that follows an active day and a good ...

After a recent successful bow hunt, JH came out of the woods before daylight vanished. He had his deer loaded and he just sat ...

DRUMMOND, Wis. — What a difference a few ounces makes. Woodcock hunters haven’t received the flak that mourning dove hunters have for hunting small game birds, even though the American woodcock only ...

MONTPELIER — Vermont's hunting season for ruffed grouse or "partridge," is Sept. 27 through Dec. 31 this year. The daily limit is four grouse with a possession limit of eight. The Vermont woodcock ...

The woods were wet from three days of rain and a stubborn fog hung over the field, obscuring the crimson splashes that lined the clearing, but we weren't complaining. We knew fall had arrived, even if ...