"1902 song ""The Woodchuck Song"", written by Robert Hobart Davis for Fay Templeton in the musical ""The Runaways"". The lyrics became better known in a 1904 version of the song written by Theodore Morse, with a chorus of ""How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"", which was recorded by Ragtime Roberts, in 1904. The tongue-twister is documented as ""folklore"" in 1972 at Farmington, Michigan. It is used in the title of Werner Herzog's 1976 film ""How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck"", a documentation of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in New Holland, Pennsylvania."
"Groundhog The groundhog (""Marmota monax""), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux. The name ""thickwood badger"" was given in the Northwest to distinguish the animal from the prairie badger. Monax (""Móonack"") is an Algonquian name of the woodchuck, which meant ""digger"" (cf. Lenape ""monachgeu"")."
"bits of stone. Woodchuck remains were found in the Indian mounds at Aztalan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Robert Frost's poem ""A Drumlin Woodchuck"" uses the imagery of a groundhog dug into a small ridge as a metaphor for his emotional reticence. Groundhog The groundhog (""Marmota monax""), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk"
"The etymology of the name ""woodchuck"" is unrelated to wood or chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, ""wuchak"". The similarity between the words has led to the popular tongue-twister: The groundhog prefers open country and the edges of woodland, and is rarely far from a burrow entrance. Marmota monax has a wide geographic range. It is typically found in low elevation forests, small woodlots, fields, pastures and hedgerows. It constructs dens in well drained soil, and most have summer and winter dens. Human activity has increased food access and abundance allowing ""M. monax"" to"
"Woodcock The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of the genus ""Gallinago"". As with many other sandpiper genera,"
"Woodcock The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of the genus ""Gallinago"". As with many other sandpiper genera,"
"of woodcock inhabiting North America. Although classified with the sandpipers and shorebirds in Family Scolopacidae, the American woodcock lives mainly in upland settings. Its many folk names include timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, becasse, twitterpate, little gomer, fiddle squeak, worm sabre, wafflebird, whipperwon't, bumblebee chicken, billdad, mud needle, prairie turtle, and crazy straw. The population of the American woodcock has fallen by an average of slightly more than 1% annually since the 1960s. Most authorities attribute this decline to a loss of habitat caused by forest maturation and urban development. In 2008 wildlife biologists and conservationists released an"
"Black Shuck Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, one of many ghostly black dogs recorded in folklore across the British Isles. Accounts of Black Shuck form part of the folklore of Norfolk, Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire fens and Essex, and descriptions of the creature's appearance and nature vary considerably; it is sometimes recorded as an omen of death, but, in other instances, is described as companionable. According to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", the name ""Shuck"" derives from"
"Young groundhogs may be called chucklings. Other marmots, such as the yellow-bellied and hoary marmots, live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the groundhog is a lowland creature. It is found through much of the eastern United States across Canada and into Alaska The groundhog is the largest sciurid in its geographical range. Adults are 16 to 20 inches (40–50 cm) long, including a six inch (15 cm) tail. A large woodchuck thought to weigh twenty pounds when carried was exactly half that weight when weighed by scale. Woodchuck weight ranges from five to twelve pounds. Extremely large individuals may"
"Woodpecker finch The woodpecker finch (""Camarhynchus pallidus"") is a species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae. Woodpecker finches occur widely in the Galapagos Islands, from sea level to high elevations. It has gained fame due to its capability of using a twig, stick, or cactus spine as a tool so it has been nicknamed the tool-using finch or carpenter finch. The tool is used as compensation for its short tongue. The finch manipulates the tool to dislodge invertebrate prey such as grubs from trees. The same tool can be used many times on many"
"in the genus ""Lullula"" that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1829. The current genus name is onomatopoeic from French “Lulu”, the name given to the bird by de Buffon. The French name, ""Alouette lulu"", and the scientific name, ""Lullula arborea"", are derived from the sound of its song. The specific ""arborea"" is from Latin ""arbor, arboris"", ""tree"". There are two subspecies of woodlark: This is a 13.5- to 15-cm-long bird, slightly smaller than the skylark being roughly 20% shorter. The woodlark is mainly brown above and pale below, but with a distinctive white superciliar meeting"
"to a woodpecker's drumming on a tree trunk. Woodpecker finch The woodpecker finch (""Camarhynchus pallidus"") is a species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae. Woodpecker finches occur widely in the Galapagos Islands, from sea level to high elevations. It has gained fame due to its capability of using a twig, stick, or cactus spine as a tool so it has been nicknamed the tool-using finch or carpenter finch. The tool is used as compensation for its short tongue. The finch manipulates the tool to dislodge invertebrate prey such as grubs from trees. The same"
"Woodchat shrike The woodchat shrike (""Lanius senator"") is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The specific ""senator"" is Latin for ""senator"", so-named because its chestnut cap recalled the colour of the stripe on the toga of a Roman senator. The common name ""Woodchat"" is an Anglicisation of German ""waldkatze"", literally ""woodcat"", and ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. The woodchat shrike breeds in southern Europe, the Middle"
"generic name is a direct translation of its common name, derived from the Greek words ""hyle""/ύλη ""woodland"" and ""cichle""/κιχλη ""thrush"" or ""fieldfare"". The specific name comes from the Latin ""mustela"" ""weasel"". It is closely related to the other typical American thrushes of the genus ""Catharus"", and is sometimes merged into that genus. It has been considered close to the long-distance migrant species of that genus, as opposed to the generally resident nightingale-thrushes, but this appears to be erroneous. The wood thrush also appears to be fairly closely related to the large ""Turdus"" thrushes, such as the American robin. The adult"
"is a tall duck, who is either the same character in every story with many different titles depending on the situation or separate characters. In some Italian stories the troop commander of the Duckburg troop is a tall, strong and wise (but afraid of flight) goose whose name is Bertie McGoose. To become a full member of the Junior Woodchucks and be assigned to a local troop one must first enlist as cadets, who uses no-tails woodchuck caps, and pass an initiation test that proves one's intelligence and resourcefulness. After one has passed this test and become a full member,"
"turkey, and ruffed grouse, and animals whose populations have also declined in recent decades, such as the golden-winged warbler, whip-poor-will, willow flycatcher, indigo bunting, and New England cottontail. Leslie Glasgow, the assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, Parks, and Marine Resources from 1969 to 1970, wrote a dissertation through Texas A&M University on the woodcock, with research based on his observations through the Louisiana State University Agricultural Experiment Station. He was an LSU professor from 1948 to 1980 and an authority on wildlife in the wetlands. American woodcock The American woodcock (""Scolopax minor""), sometimes colloquially referred to as"
"hobby (""Falco subbuteo""), lapwing (""Vanellus vanellus""), curlew (""Numenius arquata""), green sandpiper (""Tringa ochropus""), Eurasian woodcock (""Scolopax rusticola""), common snipe (""Gallinago gallinago""), collared dove (""Streptopelia decaocto""), cuckoo (""Cuculus canorus""), long-eared owl (""Asio otus""), tawny owl (""Strix aluco""), common swift (""Apus apus""), hoopoe (""Upupa epops""), grey-headed woodpecker (""Picus canus""), European green woodpecker (""Picus viridis""), barn swallow (""Hirundo rustica""), house martin (""Delichon urbica""), tree pipit (""Anthus trivialis""), dunnock (""Prunella modularis""), redstart (""Phoenicurus phoenicurus""), wheatear (""Oenanthe oenanthe""), redwing (""Turdus iliacus""), mistle thrush (""Turdus viscivorus""), sedge warbler (""Acrocephalus schoenobaenus""), aquatic warbler (""Acrocephalus paludicola""), reed warbler (""Acrocephalus scirpaceus""), icterine warbler (""Hippolais icterina""), lesser whitethroat (""Sylvia curruca""),"
"that Eurasian woodcock flew to the moon during the months when they were not seen and the first full moon in November, when large numbers arrive on the British coast, is sometimes described as the 'woodcock moon'. Reaney and Wilson wrote that the English surname ""Woodcock"" developed as a nickname from the bird, meaning 'a fool, simpleton or dupe'. In William Shakespeare's play ""Love's Labours Lost"", Berowne describes himself and his friends as 'four woodcocks in a dish', after discovering they have all fallen in love when they have sworn not to. An old folk name for the goldcrest was"
"Moluccan woodcock The Moluccan woodcock (""Scolopax rochussenii""), also known as Obi woodcock, is a medium-sized, approximately 40 cm long, forest wader with long and dark bill, orange buff below and black barred upperparts. The plumage is marked with large buff spots. This species is the largest of the woodcocks, 25% bigger than Eurasian woodcock. An Indonesian endemic, the Moluccan woodcock is restricted to Obi and Bacan, two small islands in North Maluku. It is known from eight specimens, with the most recent collected in 1980. Nothing is known of its habits. Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the"
"American woodcock The American woodcock (""Scolopax minor""), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, is a small chunky shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage. Because of the male woodcock's unique, beautiful courtship flights, the bird is welcomed as a harbinger of spring in northern areas. It is also a popular game bird, with about 540,000 killed annually by some 133,000 hunters in the U.S. The American woodcock is the only species"
"the woodlark (""Lullula arborea""). Lullula Lullula is the genus of woodlarks, songbirds in the family Alaudidae. There is only one remaining extant species, the woodlark which is found in Europe, the mountains of northern Africa, the Middle East and western Asia. The remainder are known only from the fossil record. The genus ""Lullula"" was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1829. The genus ""Lullula"" is onomatopoeic from the French ""Lulu"", the name given by de Buffon. Both the French name, ""Alouette lulu"" and the genus name are derived from the sound of its song. The genus contain"
"of any type, with a lifespan of up to 140 years; the oldest has been recorded at 168 years old. The name ""geoduck"" is derived from a Lushootseed (Nisqually) word ""gʷídəq"" either a word composed of a first element of unknown meaning and ""əq"" meaning ""genitals"" (referring to the shape of the clam), or a phrase meaning ""dig deep"", or perhaps both, as a double entendre. It is sometimes known as the mud duck, king clam, or when translated literally from Chinese, the elephant-trunk clam. Between 1983 and 2010, the scientific name of this clam was confused with that of"
"Woodhouse's toad Woodhouse's toad (""Anaxyrus woodhousii"") is a medium-sized () true toad native to the United States and Mexico. There are three recognized subspecies. ""A. woodhousii"" tends to hybridize with ""Anaxyrus americanus"" where their ranges overlap. Woodhouse's toad was first described in 1854 by the French herpetologist Charles Frédéric Girard. He gave it the name ""Bufo woodhousii"" in honor of the American physician and naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse. The large genus ""Bufo"" was split by Frost ""et al."" in 2006, with the North American species being included in the genus ""Anaxyrus"" and this toad becoming ""A. woodhousii"". There are three"
"around four times as a vagrant, and has also been recorded once in Ireland. Woodchat shrike The woodchat shrike (""Lanius senator"") is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The specific ""senator"" is Latin for ""senator"", so-named because its chestnut cap recalled the colour of the stripe on the toga of a Roman senator. The common name ""Woodchat"" is an Anglicisation of German ""waldkatze"", literally ""woodcat"", and ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"","
"mostly composed of seeds but also includes insects during the breeding period. A comparatively small bird, the woodlark is between 13.5 and 15 centimetres long and roughly 20% shorter than the skylark. It is a brown bird with a pale underside and has a white-tipped tail. The woodlark was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his ""Systema Naturae"" and given the binomial name ""Alauda arborea"". This binomial name is identical to the Latin name used in 1676 by English ornithologist Francis Willughby in his ""Ornithologiae libri tres"". The woodlark is now placed"
"given the common name ""moccasin"" or ""moccasin snake"" in the United States, which is the Algonquian word for ""shoe"". The origin of this nickname are unknown. The first known use of ""moccasin"" to refer to a deadly venomous snake was in a 1765 publication. The nickname is used to refer to both cottonmouths and copperheads. According to the Word Detective, this use may be related to their color and appearance or the silence with which they move. Another source for this name may be the Native American word ""mokesoji"" of unknown origin and meaning. Members of this genus have a"
"the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, though it has been suggested that the Hunterian's belongs to a sable antelope (""H.niger""). A pair of horns is present at both the Natural History Museum, London, and the South African Museum. Skeletal remains have been found in both archaeological and palaeontological contexts. The common names ""bluebuck"" and ""blue antelope"" are English for the original Afrikaans name ""blaubok"" . The name is a compound of ""blauw"" and ""bok"" (""male antelope"" or ""male goat""). Variants of this name include ""blaawwbok"" and ""blawebock"". The generic name ""Hippotragus"" is Greek for ""horse-goat"", while the specific name ""leucophaeus"" is"
"Tropidophis Tropidophis, common name wood snake or West Indian wood snake, is a genus of dwarf boas endemic to the West Indies and South America. Currently, 17 species are recognized. Adults grow to between in total length (including tail). They are secretive and predominately terrestrial, found in a variety of natural habitats, including rain forest, swamps, pine woods and scrub, as well as in the vicinity of human habitation. They have a peculiar defensive habit of expelling blood from the mouth, nostrils and eyes when disturbed. Some species also change colour over the course of the day. Despite their relatively"
"injuries. This compares to a mortality of 51 percent for paper birch (""Betula papyrifera""), 40 percent for red maple (""Acer rubrum""), 3 percent for red spruce (""Picea rubens""), and 1 percent for hemlock (""Tsuga canadensis""). Sapsucker The sapsuckers are four species of North American woodpeckers in the genus Sphyrapicus. There are four currently recognized species in the genus: The genus name ""Sphyrapicus"" is a combination of the Greek words ""sphura"", meaning ""hammer"" and ""pikos"", meaning ""woodpecker"". The members of this genus are slender birds with stiff tails and relatively long wings. Their typical pattern in flight is undulating, alternating between"
"ibis. It also has been given the name of the ""American wood stork"", because it is found in the Americas. Regional names include ""flinthead"", ""stonehead"", ""ironhead"", ""gourdhead"", and ""preacher"". The adult wood stork is a large bird which stands tall with a wingspan of . The male typically weighs , with a mean weight of ; the female weighs , with a mean weight of . Another estimate puts the mean weight at . The head and neck of the adult are bare, and the scaly skin is a dark grey. The black downward-curved bill is long and very wide"
"finch, (""Carduelis citrinella"") and the Corsican finch, (""Carduelis corsicana""). The English word 'goldfinch' was used in the second half of the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer in his unfinished ""The Cook's Tale"": ""Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe (Gaily dressed he was as is a goldfinch in the woods)"". The subspecies are divided into two major groups. These intergrade at their boundary so the groups are not recognised as distinct species despite their readily distinguishable plumage. Subspecies in the ""carduelis"" group occupy the western part of the range and have black crowns; subspecies in the ""caniceps"" group occupy"
"they were renamed ""Psyduck"", a combination of the words ""psychic"" and ""duck"". Known as the Duck Pokémon, Psyduck resembles a yellow platypus with a vacant stare. It has a small tuft of black hair at the top of its head. It walks on its hind legs, and has arms rather than wings. Its arms are useful in using its powerful psychic abilities. Its appearance is meant to trick enemies into thinking it is weak. It has arms with three claws on each to deliver scratches if threatened. Psyduck live in freshwater lakes, small ponds, or rivers in tropical areas. When"
"and human disturbed areas. They have a range of calls from a short, sharp ""kuk"" to more intoned ""kyuk"", ""kew"", ""kee-yow"" calls. The longer calls are given prior to flying off. They roost within holes. These subspecies are described: The Andaman woodpecker (""Dryocopus hodgei"") was treated as a subspecies in the past. The species has in the past been placed in the genus ""Thriponax"" and ""Macropicus"". This large black woodpecker is usually seen singly or as a pair, which may sometimes be accompanied by a third bird. They have a dipping in which the loud single note laugh like ""chiank"""