WOODCOCK CFNSUS STUDIFS IN DELAWARE, MARYLAND, NORTH CAROLINA, 
NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA, AND OHIO, 1951 
P. F. English 
Pennsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit 
_ In 1939.the Pennsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit initiated 
singing-ground counts on woodcock and have continued these counts annually - 
on two permanent census areas in central Pennsylvania. 
At the North American Wildlife Conference held March 1949 at Washington, 
D. C., Fish and Wildlife Service personnel asked P. F. English to enlist 
other mid-Atlantic states in procuring annual census counts for their areas. 
Reports were submitted for these states in 1950 and this compiled 
report was submitted to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These results 
along with similar findings for the New England states aid the Fish and 
Wildlife Service in setting seasons that will be advantageous to the sports- 
men and insure perpetuation of the species. The states cooperating in 1950 
and 1951 are: 
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. 
Conservation Commission, Charleston, West Virginia. 
These states have been asked to set up permanent census areas which 
may be checked year after year. Only by such a method may the wodcock 
population trends be obtained. 
The findings for 1951 and for 1950 are given in Table 1. The results 
of both years are presented so the cooperating states may compare the two 
years findings. One cooperator in Ohio has submitted data used in the 
1951 report. 
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