WOODCOCK CENSUS STUDIES IN NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES - 1950 
Howard L. Mendall 
This spring, as in previous years, the writer 
coordinating the annual woodcock census studies in the 
compiling the resulting data. 
was assigned the task of 
northeastern States and of 
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Investigations in central and eastern Maine were conducted for the 14th 
consecutive year by the personnel of the Maine Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit 
The writer was assisted in 1950 by Malcolm Coulter, H. L. Kutz ir’ 
William Peppard, and Frank Haseltine on the Penobscot 
Beckett, Arnold Davis, John Dudley, 
Denis Benson, 
County areas; and by Louis 
and Jim Rearden on the Washington County areas, 
The results of the census studies of the Maine Unit are presented in Table 1 
Beginning in 1945, an increasing number of new census areas have been 
established throughout the New England States and New York by cooperators who have 
reported their findings to the Maine Unit for combined tabulations. Itis gratifying to 
note, each year, a larger number of study areas. The names of the individuals 
participating in the 1950 census are given with the tabulated data. State organization 
of these cooperator areas has been as follows: for Maine, Howard Mendall, Maine 
Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; for New Hampshire, Fred Scott, New Hampshire 
Fish and Game Department; for the Franklin County areas in Vermont, Ralph Minns, 
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; for all other areas in Vermont, Roger Seamans, 
Vermont Fish and Game Service; for the Newburyport area.in Massachusetts, Russell 
Norris, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; for all other areas in Massachusetts, William 
Sheldon, Massachusetts Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; for Connecticut, James 
Bishop, Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game; for Long Island, Samuel Miller, 
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; for all other areas in New York, Charles Brown, 
New York Conservation Commission. 
The results of the 1950 census studies on the cooperator areas are shown 
in Table 2. 
Summary 
The following tabulation shows, in condensed form, the totals by States on 
all census areas: 

1949 1950 
ay Total Total 
Maine 197 211 
New Hampshire 12 ll 
Vermont 117 100 
Massachusetts 63 72 
Connecticut 53 44 
New York 122 134 
Grand Total 564 572 
From these data it may: be coneluded that the status of breeding woodcock in 
northeastern United States was virtually unchanged in 1950 from a year ago, witha 
‘very slight gain recorded, Thus, a favorable|population trend has been maintained 
for ‘three consecutive years. 
