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woodcock: synonyms: Scolopax minor, timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, becasse ???

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a small ground-dwelling game bird

^{painting: by Archibald Thorburn (1927), https://www.wikiart.org/en/archibald-thorburn/a-woodcock-1927}
^{audio file: by Jonathon Jongsma, XC78342. Accessible at https://www.xeno-canto.org/78342}
^{license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/}

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Polonius: Ay, springes to catch woodcocks! I do know,

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul

Lends the tongue vows.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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I drove into the immense so-called Shabelsky pine-forest where we were intending to look for woodcocks.

Anton Chekhov. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

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hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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