You’d be wrong, Ed.

The transmitters these days are so tiny, they weigh fractions of an ounce.

They place them inside Woodcock, and you can watch the migration online if you want.
The thing that people should be worried about is that we are entering The sixth or 10th generation of ruffed grouse that don’t seem to be responding to gigantic habitat increases across the range.

As early successional forest creatures, large scale, cutting due to economic expansion, theoretically should result in greater numbers of birds. But researchers are not seeing the evidence for that.


Out there doing it best I can.