Research. We kicked off our pilot season in Fall 2017 when we marked 6 woodcock with satellite transmitters in Maine prior to fall migration. Interested in supporting our Woodcock Migration Research? In the 1960’s we had the Space Race, in the 1990’s we had the computer race, and in the new Millennium we had the cell phone race. A new race is underway, and that is the telemetry race, which Woodcock Limited has now entered by providing our first two telemetry units. The American Woodcock Migration Mapping System. Cooler weather is moving into New England later this week and we will have to wait and see how birds respond. Since 2017, Alex, myself, and Dr. Amber Roth, also a faculty member at the University of Maine, have been coordinating the Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative. Woodcock have declined throughout eastern North America and we seek to understand how the conditions they experience during migration may influence these declines. The American Woodcock Society has been a major supporter of our project from its inception, and we are continuing to partner with them on future work. Few woodcock marked in New England have initiated migration.
Studying the Woodcock Migration Photo Credit | Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative. Our project seeks to better understand American woodcock migration throughout eastern North America. One woodcock left western New York and is currently in southern Ohio, but few other birds have initiated migration. If you'd like to donate funds to the project, please visit their donation page to learn more. By working with a broad set of partners, we use GPS and satellite technology to track woodcock as they migrate between their northern breeding areas and southern wintering grounds.