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The American woodcock -- also called a timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, and Labrador twister, among many more -- is a migratory shorebird that occurs throughout eastern and central North America but its populations have been declining over the past half century.

The woodcock, also known as the timberdoodle, can be spotted on the ground beneath shrubbery, doing a groovy little dance.

I should add that the American woodcock, known affectionately as the timberdoodle, is an elusive, seldom seen and relatively rare ghost hidden in tangled tree and thicket bottoms. Small as a quail, it is a loner, not prone to flocking in anything like commercially viable numbers. One might see two or three together. And it flies in a darting blur of brown that succeeds in putting every tree, shrub, vine and briar between you and it in a split second. 

Its alias is downright silly: the timberdoodle.