American Woodcock

The Music of Nature proudly presents "American Woodcock," a video portrait of an American Woodcock giving it&nasal "peent" calls at dusk. Notice the subtle throat sound that immediately precedes each peent. At the end, he takes flight and you can hear the high-pitched twittering of his wings, a sound made by modified wing feathers. © 2009 Lang Elliott, musicofnature.org Videotaped by Lang Elliott in April 2009, near Ithaca, New York Many thanks to all those who helped: Bob McGuire, Beth Bannister, Becca Harber, David Werier, and Sarah Brown.