American woodcocks have not only a unique mating ritual—a so-called “sky dance” in which males perform what Audubon.org calls a “high, twisting flight, with chippering, twittering, bubbling sounds” to woo females—but also, at times, a funny walk, captured on video here by Justin Kemp in Cherokee County, Kansas and shared with us by Justin’s uncle, Tom Ross, who often contributes photos to us. Experts aren’t sure why woodcocks walk this way, but among the theories are that the birds are feeling f
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