It also likes open areas in the big timber. No, just in the fall and winter. It spends the spring and summer around the Great Lakes area. Its long, pointed beak is useful for poking holes into the soil to find them. The female is identical to the male, only a little larger.
Chicks are brown and white with bluish beaks.
On the ground, in low brushy areas, usually near wet sites. You're the visitor since, May 23, 2000. This web-site is a collaboration among Piney Woods AHEC , the Biotechnology Program , the Environmental Science Program , and the Dean's office of the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Stephen F. Austin State University .