
helped greatly in organizing the counts and conducting experimental 
work on this method'in their respective areas, 
Counts of wintering woodcock in west central Louisiana made with 
the help of bird dogs by Vincent Reid and Phil Goodrum in the winter 
of 1954-1955, reported beyond, showed a 2% increase over the previous 
winter. This change, as in all changes in the past, showed good correla~ 
tion with amount of rainfall--the number of woodcock flushed per hour 
increases with increased precipitation during the period of study. For 
tnis reason the counts are not indicative of over-all population 
changes and will not be until other similar counts are made which cover 
both upland and lowland habitats simultaneously, and over a fair sample 
of the wintering range of this species. In this connection data pre- 
sented by Glasgow in his paper, which appears beyond, is of interest as 
it was for bottomland habitats in Louisiana as compared with the upland 
habitats of Reid and Goodrum. In the last two winters the bottomland 
habitats showed opposite trends in woodcock abundance from the uplands. 
However, this inverse relationship did not hold for the only other 
winter for which comparable data were available, 
Table 2,--SUMMARY OF WOODCOCK SINGING GROUND COUNTS 
BY STATES WEST OF THE APPALACHIANS 
Number Total Total Average 


State Year of stops birds birds 
routes all all per 
trips trips stop 
West Virginia 1954 9 223 152 ~ 681 
| 1955 9 229 104, e454 
Kentucky 195), 3 72 27 “3t5 
1955 6 135 5 305 
Ohio’ 1954 8 190 229 1.205 
1955 10 199 259 1.302 
Michigan 195k 36 Ohh 1000 1.059 
1955 52 889 7199 0899 
Wisconsin 195h al 39 25 Ohl 
1955 5 62 35 0565 
Minnesota 1954, 3 Th 32 032 
1955 8 130 3h, 0262 
Ontariox 1955 h 176 46 0261 
Quebec 1955 Dis 13 0255 
GRAND TOTALs+ 1954 60 152 Ws65 «950 
1955 99 1871 1335 o7 Ly 
Difference ~ 236 
Change . 25% 
% Comparative data lacking for 195) 
*% Ontario and Quebec excluded from grand total because comparable data 
not available for both years, 
