Fall Migration of Woodcock at Cape May, New Jersey
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 41 (1) , 104-111
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3800098
Abstract
From 1968-1973, 2337 American woodcock (Philohela minor) were banded during late fall on the Cape May Peninsula of S New Jersey [USA]. Direct recovery rates averaged 3.6% for hatching-year birds and 1.7% for adults. Distribution of recoveries indicated that Cape May migrants wintered on the coastal plain of Virginia and North Carolina. Indirect recoveries showed that Peninsula woodcock originated from as far north as New England and E Canada. The percentage of woodcock seen which were caught by night-lighting averaged 2.5 times greater from a truck than on foot. Age-sex structure of bandings was similar each year with the overall composition as follows: immature males, 57%; immature females, 28%; adult males, 10%; and adult females, 5%. Compared to the continental population, there was an unusually high proportion of immature woodcock at Cape May during late fall.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: