High Altitude Records of the American Woodcock in the Great Balsam Mountains and Pisgah Ridge of North Carolina
Simpson MB. 1971. High Altitude Records of the American Woodcock in the Great Balsam Mountains and Pisgah Ridge of North Carolina. The Chat. 35:61-63
ABSTRACT: In a previous paper (Simpson, 1968) I summarized evidence that the American Woodcock (Philohela minor) occurs in high altitude regions of six major mountain ranges of North Carolina. Since that time a large number of sightings in the region of the Blue Ridge Parkway between Mt. Pisgah and Richland Balsam suggests that the bird is much more common at high elevations than is generally indicated in the literature. These records are from a 23-mile section of the Parkway through Pisgah Ridge and the Great Balsam Mountains, and the observations are based primarily on the call notes and courtship flight song as described in detail by Wade (1957) and Simpson (1968). The precise locale of each record is indicated by the milepost system utilized by the Parkway.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Simpson, Marcus
- Units
- BLRI
- Keywords
- American woodcock, APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, Aves, BLRI, Blue Ridge Parkway, Philohela minor, Scolopacidae, SER, Southeast Region