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Antique engraved illustration of the woodcock. Vintage illustration of the woodcock. Old engraved picture of the bird. #261925589
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Antique engraved illustration of the woodcock. Vintage illustration of the woodcock. Old engraved picture of the bird. The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050. According to the Harleian Miscellany, a group of them is called a fall .