WOODCOCK SINGING GROUND COUNTS IN DELAWARE, MARYLAND, NORTH CAROLINA, 
NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA, AND OHIO, 1952 
P. F. English 
Pennsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit 
The following agencies and their aides participated in the reports 
here presented for the years 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952. 
Board of Game and Fish Commissioners, Dover, Delaware. 
Game and Inland Fish Commission, Baltimore 2, Maryland. 
Wildlife Resources Commission, Raleigh, North Carolina. 
Department of Conservation and Economic Development, Trenton 7, 
New Jersey. 
Pennsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, State College, 
Pennsylvania, and The Pennsylvania State College. 
- Conservation Commission, Charleston, West Virginia. 
As you know we have endeavored to have each line established run 
year after year. Most cooperators are following this pattern. This 
year I am able to compare 31 stations in 1952 with a similar number 
of 1951 and in totaling these it is interesting to find how the total 
observations for each year are almost identical. 
There are 9 stations where we have three years to compare and 
six stations where we have four years data. As this progresses we 
should gain some valuable information over the whole area. 
Four new stations marked with # were established in 1952. 
The findings over the year are reported to the best of my ability 
in interpreting the data in Table 1 while Table 2 compares the last two 
years by States; Table 3 summarizes data for central Pennsylvania from 
1939 through 1952. 
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