Scolopax rusticola

About the size of a pigeon and looking like a large Snipe, the Woodcock is a bulky wading bird with short legs and a very long straight tapering bill. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes are set far back on its head to give it 360-degree vision and it probes in the ground for food with its long, sensitive bill. It is largely nocturnal, spending most of the day in dense cover