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These urban-tolerant insectivores nest throughout the state, anywhere with a large lawn or mowed pasture and a small, open, usually gravelly area for a nest site.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1910
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In Louisiana, these common insectivores and mollusk predators breed strictly near the coast, nesting on sand and shell beaches up to several hundred yards from water. The Willet is on the Audubon WatchList for North America.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1910
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These ground-nesting, nocturnal songsters nest so early in the spring that Louisiana's substantial wintering population hinders the detection of breeding birds. The only confirmation during the Atlas period was of a hen and her chicks crossing a road in the Kisatchie National Forest in 1994. A woodcock feeds by probing the soil, using the flexible tip of its bill to sense and grasp earthworms.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1910
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