WOODCOCK CENSUS STUDIES IN NORTHFASTERN UNITED STATES - 1952 
Howard L. Mendall 
Maine Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit 
During the spring of 1952, the writer served as coordinator of the 
woodeock census studies that were conducted in the New England States 
and New York. 
Comparative census data are now available for periods varying from 
2 years on some of the new areas to as many as 16 years in eastern 
Maine. Several additional new areas were established this year which 
will result in comparative data for 1953. 
Over-all coverage in the region was not quite as good in 1952 as 
a year ago. This is due, in part, to several missing reports from 
cooperators, chiefly in Maine and New York; also, in Maine, several 
census routes that have been maintained a long period of time were 
either altered or abandoned this year because of adverse changes in 
the forest cover. 
On several routes throughout the region slight alterations in 
length were made, and thus figures given in the 1951 report for a 
given census area are not necessarily identical to the figures for 
1951 that are used in the present report. 
State organization of the cooperator areas in 1952 was as follows: 
Maine, by the writer, assisted in Washington County by John Dudley and 
in central Maine by Richard Parks, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries 
and Game, and Malcolm Coulter of the Maine Unit; New Hampshire, by 
Fred Scott; Vermont, by Roger Seamans, Vermont Fish and Game Service, 
with Ralph Minns, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service handling the High- 
gate area and IL. Henry Potter taking the Clarendon area; Massachusetts, 
by William Sheldon, Massachusetts Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, 
assisted by Russell Norris, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the 
Newburyport area; Connecticut, by Mason S. Belden, Connecticut Board 
of Fisheries and Game; New York, by Charles P. Brown, New York Con- 
servation Commission. ~ 
The results of the 1952 census studies by individual areas are 
given in Table l. 
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