Name: VOLUNTEER: Woodcock Habitat Restoration 2025-12-06
Start: 2025-12-06T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Schenck Forest Access Road

**Woodcock Habitat Management Workday**
**\*Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025**
**\*Time: 9-11:45**
**\*Place: Schenck Forest, meet at entrance road off Reedy Creek Road in Raleigh (near Bandwidth building)**
\*Project description: American Woodcock use small clearings to perform their "Sky Dance" mating ritual on winter evenings. **We will cut and remove shrubs and weedy growth** from three courtship grounds at Schenck Forest. These sites were established nine years ago in the Longleaf Pine regeneration stand by the Wake Audubon chapter in partnership with the NCSU School of Forestry in the College of Natural Resources. NCSU’s Leopold Wildlife Club has helped with site management as well.
**To register: contact John Connors by December 1.**
**EMAIL jconnorsbird@gmail.com or call 919-841-8206**
**and leave your name and contact information.**

**\*Bring: work gloves, garden tools such as lopping shears, hedge clippers, pruning saw, metal rake. We recommend appropriate footwear work boots, eye protection, hat, water, snack.**
**\*\*NO POWER TOOLS, no shorts, no open toe shoes. Adults only.**

**\*Important Information: This project involves physically challenging work in a semi-remote setting, so participants need to be physically fit, provide contact information, and sign release forms when they arrive.**

**Thanks for helping wildlife!**

Addendum by Lynn Erla Beegle:
The American Woodcock are shorebirds adapted to living in forests, feasting on earthworms. They have a complex mating ritual, often referred to as a **Sky Dance**. They For courtship dances, they need a relatively open space, about the size of a basketball court, surrounded by brush and woodland. For more information, read: [https://forestsociety.org/forest-journal-column/timberdoodle-talent-skydancing-day-away](https://forestsociety.org/forest-journal-column/timberdoodle-talent-skydancing-day-away)
To watch a Sky Dance (it occurs at dusk): watch "Woodcock Displays" from Maine Audubon: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaza-IgWiDs](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Diaza-IgWiDs&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3d16Cx9eh8bqIUfbybp2fN)

Updated November 6, 2024

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