Originally Posted By: GLS
European woodcock may be rare in parts of their historic range, but in other places they migrate in populations sufficient to attract hunters.
Illegal Italian Woodcock Recipe. Most likely illegal not because of official position that it is not hygienic, but too many Italian chefs were killed immediately after telling customers what they just ate. :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcl-ZoFwJXY
Woodcock hunting in Scotland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekS4BUCitk
France:
http://www.gourmetfly.com/Huntw.htm


In Sweden woodcock is plentyful at times and scarce the next day. They are impossible to figure out. The birds pass us in the spring on their way to Balticum and Russia and then in the fall on their way back to France, Italy, Ireland and Great Britain. After a frosty november night there can be lots of woodcock where there were none the day before. In Denmark, our neighbor country, they have a word for it, "sneppefald". The translation would be "Woodcock rain".