{"id":35633,"date":"2025-03-20T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/american-woodcock-inventory-spring-2018\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:01:46","slug":"american-woodcock-inventory-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/american-woodcock-inventory-spring-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"American Woodcock Inventory (Spring 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment and Land Office team was fortunate to receive a visit from the Club des B\u00e9cassiers du Qu\u00e9bec to teach us the art of woodcock inventory using a pointing dog. Using the dog\u2019s sense of smell, excellent training and a specific bird-seeking lineage, it is possible to detect the presence of woodcock (and even nests) in suitable habitats.<\/p>\n<p>The people at the club helped us target Odanak forest habitats that could lend themselves to developments aimed at improving the quality of this bird\u2019s habitat.<\/p>\n<p>By managing to increase the quality of habitat for the woodcock, we are also improving the habitat parameters for many other species. For example, a very young, dense deciduous forest can serve as nesting habitat for woodcock, but also provide optimal habitat for raising broods of ruffed grouse.<\/p>\n<p>Such development work will eventually delight small game hunters and many amateur ornithologists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment and Land Office team was fortunate to receive a visit from the Club des B\u00e9cassiers du Qu\u00e9bec to teach us the art of woodcock inventory using a pointing dog. Using the dog\u2019s sense of smell, excellent training and a specific bird-seeking lineage, it is possible to detect the presence of woodcock (and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113,106,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-environment","category-environmental-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caodanak.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}