Arkansas · MigratoryAmerican woodcock

Arkansas's woodcock signal splits by season along the same Ozark/Ouachita-versus-Delta line that also structures the state's bobwhite quail distribution (see that record). Satellite-telemetry research from the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit tracked spring-migrating woodcock stopping over in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains, with one tagged bird documented at Ozark National Forest in March, and hunter forum commentary independently corroborates that Arkansas woodcock hunting concentrates in the Ouachita forest uplands rather than the Delta/marsh country hunters might expect. A separate peer-reviewed study (Krementz, Crossett, and Lehnen 2014) found the opposite seasonal pattern in the Delta: during the fall hunting season (November-December), woodcock in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley portion of the Delta showed measurable, if low, densities concentrated specifically in unharvested soybean fields of 8-40 hectares, with zero detections in millet or rice fields.