Jkhkhjjmkhj! LOOK AT THESE BABY WOODCOCKS PRACTICING THEIR BOOTY BOP
Video credit: https://t.co/WNgg06nHQY pic.twitter.com/OikRng7bgd
— Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. (@corvidresearch) April 17, 2020
Why do woodcocks booty bop? We don’t 100% know but it might agitate worms, their primary food source, and make them easier for the birds to find.
— Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. (@corvidresearch) April 17, 2020
My family calls these guys “twerkeys”
— Madelyn Kirsch (@zoologxst) April 18, 2020
Irresistable (cherry-picked for your entertainment)…
Couldn't resist setting that booty bop to the hot meme song de jour pic.twitter.com/JWquR1AGld
— Aarni (@akx) April 17, 2020
poor guy looks lost
the reflection of you inquisitively capturing a video of the lil birb is very wholesome however and makes me happy
— spare clout maam (@eliseyloo) April 17, 2020
Uptown Funky Woodcocks pic.twitter.com/tpwYnd9QQe
— Graceless Hippo (@GracelessHippo) April 18, 2020
— DukeBlog (@Dukeblogger) April 17, 2020
Saturday night fever #beegees #stayinalive #bird #americanwoodcock #JohnTravolta pic.twitter.com/OuRsTsro60
— Roy Fernandez J (@RoyFernandezJ) April 17, 2020
Psssst @steelydance pic.twitter.com/pjq3vFXuS0
— Michael Cahill (@atarieurope) April 18, 2020
I added the old Japanese instrument. pic.twitter.com/LPuymQ0aLV
— えあろうっちー (@aerosubaru) April 18, 2020
— C. Raymond Martin (@TheChickenB0y) April 18, 2020
Apparently, that call is a ‘peent’…
Beep. https://t.co/k5BebTWqWu
— Big_Adam (@Big_Adam_2050) April 17, 2020
(Shine, Collective Soul)
Now somebody gotta give this lil dude the soundtrack he deserves…
Finally, the perfect friday to launch this lil woodcock into the world! Ty @Orla_McCaffrey @rimaspills & @E40 — can I get a #peent?!! pic.twitter.com/SeBtzd0Gua
— Megan Conn (@mbconn2) April 17, 2020
mrmoshpotato
TaMara (HFG)
OMG, the Collective Soul, Shine one had me on the floor. Thanks for the respite.
Baud
That feeling when small birds dance better than you do….
trollhattan
Adorable fuzzy little birdies.
Remind me a wee bit of my favorite Sierra bird, the dipper. Nondescript gray birds that do quick knee bends alongside streams then–ploop–dive into the water and stalk the streambed looking for bugs.
zhena gogolia
These are oddly addictive.
This is the kind of thing Paul Bronks used to do :(
zhena gogolia
Why can’t I comment?
zhena gogolia
Oh, I guess I used a forbidden word. Anyway, I love these. They’re the kind of thing Paul Bronks used to do.
Quiltingfool
Also known as “timber doodles!” No, I don’t know how that name came about, sorry.
West of the Rockies
@zhena gogolia:
You know what you did.
Baud
Omnes Omnibus
You know, there are a lot of cocker spaniel aficionados on this blog.
Betty
My vote goes to the Steely Dan version! Such a cute birdie!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: you don’t say
Poe Larity
A long time ago, a woodcock had to cross not a road, but a lava field.
Now you know the rest of the story.
geg6
Growing up, we lived on Woodcock Drive. My sister still lives there because she bought my parents’ house when they died. You can’t imagine what it was like in high school, with everyone knowing my street’s name. You just can’t.
NeenerNeener
I wish someone had added a “Walk Like An Egyptian” version.
Rob
This is great, thanks Anne Laurie!
CaseyL
Now I feel like dancing…
Mary G
Has anyone put this up from yesterday?
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus: At least two of us.
HumboldtBlue
Laura Marling does an absolutely wonderful cover of A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.
Duane
@geg6: How much wood would a woodcock cock if a woodcock could cock wood? Is that anywhere close? I may have been a boy in your high school.
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khead
More TCM goodness: The Hustler.
different-church-lady
The American Woodcock: it looks weird, it sounds weird, it acts weird, it IS weird.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: Welcome to the club.
opiejeanne
That little bird photographed in DC on the sidewalk? Is that a plover?
Askew
@different-church-lady: They are wonderfully weird and crepuscular in their displays. I’ve lived in Madison, WI on and off for years, and we used to bike out to the Arboretum, a large natural area with open, prairie vegetation, to lie down quietly at dusk and wait for them them dial up their courting ritual. You can get more of the experience here: https://ebird.org/species/amewoo. There’s the on-ground stuff and a completely distinct on-wing set of noises.
joel hanes
Woodcocks dancing and peenting on their peenting ground, and then doing the twittering spiral courting flight, are one of the glories of midwestern woodlands.
Aldo Leopold wrote about it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@japa21: Many more than two.
satby
@NeenerNeener: yes, that would have been great.
@Mary G: and that was awesome!
Jackie
@Mary G: I sent this to my daughter – she will SO look like a genius! And, yes, she WILL try this!?
HumboldtBlue
Woodcocks need a good military march
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I don’t think there are forbidden words anymore!
But I am releasing your comment from SPAM, no idea why it is in there. (Deleting the duplicate.)
geg6
@Duane:
That would be the milder version.
Kattails
My sister got a pic of one in her front yard, doing its thing, I have never seen one. But if you see the picture in a forested dead-leaf habitat you’d see how well camouflaged they are. So now I can see what she was talking about with the funky moves. (did I send her pic to Watergirl? can’t remember.)
prostratedragon
“That Funky Thang” (Good to see Charles Wright still around, at least as of just several years ago.)