Do woodcock display in the rain?

[Francesca Grifo]

Just wondering if they will be out tonight. Seems like the one on Izaak Walton would be visible and audible from a vehicle.
Thanks!

Francesca T. Grifo

Sent from my iPhone - please forgive my brevity!

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" Charles Darwin, 1871 

On Feb 28, 2021, at 12:08 PM, Scott Young <wsy...@gmail.com> wrote:

As I look into this mutation more, I have been told by Hein van Grouw that the Chickadee does not contain yellow-to-red pheomelanin so the brown color remaining is just less of the black eumelanin and relatively (or absolutely?) more brown eumelanin.  The chemistry of the melanins is still not entirely clear (certainly not to me) but I'm still searching!

On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12:59:33 PM UTC-5 Gene Scarpulla wrote:

Just a point of clarification --- I was speaking only about the Carolina Chickadee in the photograph, not Carolina Chickadees in general.

Gene

Bowie, Maryland

On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 11:44:29 AM UTC-5, Walter Ellison wrote:

Hi All,

I find this of interest because the Balck-capped Chickadee(BCCH) definitely does express leucism. I have seen at least four leucistic BCCH in New England and there are publications about the phenomenon. Most of these express the trait in having partially to completely white heads.

All the Best & Good Birding,

Walter Ellison

Chestertown, MD

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[bghen...@gmail.com]

In 2018, I made some autonomous recordings this time of year just across the river in Sterling, VA* and found that Woodcocks do display in the rain.  Below are my observations from that set of recordings:

2/15
6:10 pm first peent and shortly thereafter display
6:25 pm last peent
2:10 am woodcock display
2:35 am barred owl for a couple minutes
3:10 am woodcocks stil peenting
rain starts
4:25 am peent and display despite continuing rain - barred owl too
4:37 am rain picks up and last peent for a bit
5:08 am - 6:45 am peents despite rain
6:25 am with displays


2/16
6:04 pm - 6:20 pm woodcock peent
10:32 pm barred owl
10:43 pm woodcock peent
11:15 pm coyotes

1 am - other mammal
2 am - barred owl
5:45 am - 6:34 am woodcocks peenting and displaying


2/17
6:02 pm to 6:18 pm woodcock peent
7:30 pm - interesting unknown sound
9:25 pm - 9:28 pm woodcock peent
9:37 pm - 9:50 pm woodcock peent
1:33 am - 1:56 am woodcock peent
2:13 am - 2:46 am woodcock peent and display
2:55 am - barred owl
4:23 am - woodcock peent
5:10 am - barred owl
5:25 am - 5:29 am woodcock peent
5:49 am - 6:30 am woodcock peents and display

2/18
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm - woodcock peent and display
2:40 am woodcock peents
6:12 am -6:16 am woodcock display
rain
 
2/19
6:09 pm - woodcock peent
1:57 am - barred owl
6:08 am - 6:20 am woodcock peent and display

Hope that helps,

Bryan

* This was in a nature preserve that is partly wetlands with a lot of later successional fields developing into forest - tall eastern red cedars filling up what used to be an empty field