Woodcock
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Family | Scolopacidae |
|---|---|
| Scientific name | Scolopax |
| Order | Charadriiformes |
| Length | American woodcock |
| Mass | Eurasian woodcock |
| American woodcock | |
| Did you know | An old folk name for the goldcrest was the "woodcock pilot" because of the mistaken belief that the warblers rode in the feathers of migrating woodcock. |
| Movies/Shows | Hero of the Hour |
| Torn | |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons | |
| Dorian Gray | |
| Collision | |
| Land Girls | |
| True Love | |
| Perfect Skin | |
| Powder | |
| Awards | Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 995319 |
About Woodcock
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050.
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Bird charity locked out of Twitter after woodcock tweets
A bird conservation charity said it had been Locked Out of its Twitter account for Eight Days after posting several tweets about Woodcock .
The Norfolk-based British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said it lost access to its account during the Big Garden Birdwatch.
" It's all a bit of a mystery, " said the BTO's Tom Stewart .
Twitter has yet to respond to a BBC request for comment, but Elon Musk tweeted to say The Story was " ironic".
The BTO posted on its to inform birdwatchers that its Twitter account had been frozen on 20 January, at a time when BBC Winterwatch was covering the RSPB's annual citizen count of birds.
" We tried to contact Twitter to try to get our account back up and running quickly, but it's all automated and you just get a message back saying 'Thank You for sending The Information - we will review it', " said Mr Stewart.
The Charity , which has its office in Thetford, said it was asked by Twitter to verify its account, but " it was all downhill from there really, as the age we put in didn't tally with Twitter's (very under-publicised) age verification policy" He Said .
" We thought it might have happened because of our repeated use of The Word 'Woodcock ' for, which might have been misinterpreted by Twitter's algorithms, " he added.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Twitter's @TwitterComms account has yet to respond to The Bbc 's request for an explanation, but the Social Media website's owner Elon Musk has posted a tweet.
He wrote: " Most ironic thing I've read in a while. How much wood could a Woodcock . . "
Mr Stewart added: " It was annoying that it happened in that week of all weeks, when there tends to be a swell of activity among our 115,000 followers for Winterwatch and the weekend's, which we support and highlights that people can monitor birds all year round in Our Own . "
BBC Winterwatch presenter Chris Packham tweeted to ask Mr Musk to sort things out after his co-presenter Michaela Strachan had also lost her account.
He called the BTO " well respected scientists and educators working to support critical conservation projects".
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.The @_BTO account was restored on Saturday evening.
Mr Stewart said: " Obviously we're relieved to be able to tweet again.
" But we're conscious of the irony of a bird charity being Locked Out of Twitter. "
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Source of news: bbc.com
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