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Beautifully Scenic Mounted Taxidermy Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)

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Code: 12515



For sale is a Beautifully Scenic Mounted Taxidermy Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). This woodcock is in exceptionally good condition. 
 
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.According to the Harleian Miscellany, a group of them is called a "fall."
 
This will be sent via Royal Mail special delivery and dispatched within two working days.