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WOODCOCK CENSUS STUDIES IN DELAWARE, MARYLAND NORTH CAROLINA 
NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA - 1950 
P. F. English 
The personnel of the Pennsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit ha 
since 1939, been conducting "singing ground counts" on two permanent census a a 
in central Pennsylvania. In 1949 an attempt was made to include in one report he 
other States listed in the heading but a late start did not give enough time ae resna 
States. 
A count is included for 1950 from the above-names States. Similar counts 
“over the same areas each year will.be valuable in that they will indicate up or down 
trends. , 
The following organizations are not cooperating in the woodcock census 
program for this area; 
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. 
The results of the census of 1950 are shown in Table 1; 
Table 1. - Census Areas Maintained by Cooperators Report for 1950 
No. Occupied 

State Census Area County Singing Grounds Observer in 1950 
1949 1950 
Del. Petersburg Kent - 9 - E. B. Chamberlain 
Del. Golts Road New Castle - 7 Burd S. McGinnes 
Md. Cove Pt. Calvert - 3 V. F. Flyger 
Md. 15 Mile Creek Rd. Allegany - 3 D.H. Arner 
Md. Green Ridge Rd. Allegany - 3 D. H. Arner 
Md. B & O Canal Towpath Allegany = 1 D.H. Arner & T.Theurig 
N. Cc. U. Sz. #258 to 
Pleasant Hill Jones - 1 R. B. Hazel 
N. C. Falling Creek Lenoir - 1 RR. B. Hazel 
N. Cc. Linsley Farm Martin - 1 Ben H. James 
N. C. Loray Iredell - 1 T. R. Mitchell 
N. C. 1 mi. SE Raleigh Wake - 3 Donald G. Allison 
N. C. New Hope Farm Durham - 1 C. B. Woodhouse & 
W. L. Hamnet 
N. J. Haleyville Section Cumberland 7 7 E. G. Beven 
N. J. Harry Daly property Sussex 4 l H. W. Lewis 
N. J. Tuckahoe Area Atlantic 3 3 F. V. Schmidt 
