Someday I'd Really Like to Meet a Woodcock

I'd like to meet a woodcock primarily because they are ridiculously proportioned animals that I'd enjoy drawing and painting, but also because they have a really cute bobbing walk and their mating call is called "peenting," which you cannot deny is an adorable name.

Here's a short clip of a woodcock dancing:

Video by Bill Hubick For licensing/usage please contact licensing@jukinmedia.com Check out Maryland Biodiversity Project here: http://www.marylandbiodiversity.com https://www.facebook.com/MarylandBiodiversity

And here's one of peenting mixed into a snippet of Collective Soul's famous "Shine" song:

Uploaded by steelels1 on 2014-09-22.