Results 
Table 5 shows the ratios of immatures per adult female for 
States and Provinces from which 100 or more wings were received 
each year. Also shown are the ratios of immatures per adult 
(adult males and females combined). 
The number of immatures per adult female in the kill varied 
among States and Provinces each year (as did the number of 
immatures per adult). The ratio of immatures per adult female 
in the continent-wide kill, weighted by kill information, was 
1.9 in 1961 and 1.8 in 1962. The weighted number of immatures 
per adult (both sexes combined) was 1.1 in both years. 
Despite apparent lack of change in breeding success or 
population size, the number of woodcock wings received per 
U. S. hunter contacted was 30 percent higher in the 1962 
hunting season, indicating shooting was much better than in 
1961. This suggests that weather, timing of migration, or 
other factors, rather than a difference in size of the popu- 
lation, resulted in a larger kill in 1962. 
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