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Mid-Winter Woodcock Nesting

December 14, 2021 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Gary G. Youngblood  In late February of 2019, I was driving west on Interstate-64 with my young English setter Patches. We were traveling to West Virginia to grouse hunt the last couple of days of the season. My daughter Jody called me in-transit. “Daddy, you aren’t going to believe this … Parker just found a quail egg in the woods,” she said.  “Jody, it’s way too early for quail to be nesting and laying eggs. It’s probably a woodcock egg. That’s the only ground-nesting bird I know that would be laying here in February. Yep, I’ll bet Parker found a woodcock...

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Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Woodcock Ecology Tagged With: american woodcock, Woodcock, woodcock habitat

Featured Habitat Project – Seeking New Partnerships to Increase Impacts

July 20, 2021 by Jon Steigerwaldt

by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Regional Biologist Published in Covers Winter 2020 Nestled into the bedrock of the Grand Rapids, Minnesota, community for almost 120 years is a symbol of habitat creation apparent to any ruffed grouse hunter, both visiting or resident. As an inlet for raw wood from public and private land ownerships, UPM Blandin Paper Company helps create young forest wildlife habitat in the heart of the upper Great Lakes grouse range. Managing approximately 188,000 acres (most in Itasca County), Blandin was untapped potential to partner with and create hunting opportunities. When Blandin Forester and RGS member Adam...

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Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Habitat, Western Great Lakes Tagged With: forest management, habitat management, Ruffed Grouse Habitat, Success Stories, woodcock habitat, young forest habitat

Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society Continue Support for Eastern Woodcock Migration Study

April 15, 2020 by admin

Animation provided by: Alex Fish, University of Maine

Studying woodcock migration with RGS & AWS funded GPS technology.

The Virginia Chapters of the Ruffed Grouse Society have provided the latest commitment of member support for an international collaborative research effort examining American Woodcock migration. The H.C. Edwards Chapter, the James River Chapter, and the Ruffed Grouse Society Virginia State Drummer Fund (SDF) provided support for purchasing three additional GPS transmitters for deployment by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF).

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Filed Under: Announcements, Read, Wildlife Ecology, Woodcock Ecology Tagged With: american woodcock, American Woodcock Society, woodcock habitat, woodcock migration

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