NEW ANIMAL : The woodcock

[unborn anvil]

Please add in the salzwiesen park map, the woodstock, it’s an important animal in europe. This animal give fantastic hunting parties and it is very butiful.
In France we call the woodcock : « the queen of wood » ! This is not for any thing 😂!
Vote for this post for add this animal in game 😉!
Thank you very much !

[finite sigil]

If I could upvote this twice I would - not having American woodcock on NEM (and even Mississippi) and Eurasian woodcock on Salz (or any other European reserve) was a ridiculously large miss.

[unborn anvil]

Yes it’s an emblematic bird but he doesn’t is in actuals maps

[finite sigil]

Yep! I totally thought that when the species list for Salz was revealed.

[teal crag]

yes magnific bird

[unborn anvil]

Yes

[worldly oriole]

that name fits him

[unborn anvil]

Yes !

[unborn anvil]

Vote ! For this new animal in game

[vital field]

I would love these or snipes in the game. I love hunting them irl

[woeful tiger]

Honestly the woodcock and similar birds are some of the only birds that I'm really super in favor of

[boreal heron]

Leucistic woodcocks

[unborn anvil]

Yes of course !

[unborn anvil]

Vote !

[buoyant sonnet]

Would be one of the best species additions EW could make. Backfilled to Salzwiesen, Revontuli, New England Mountains and maybe Hirschfelden.

I’d love both Eurasian and American woodcocks added.

[finite sigil]

NEM and Mississippi for sure. They'd be such a great addition. I can only think of two hunting titles that have had them tbh

[buoyant sonnet]

I didn’t realise any game had woodcocks? Maybe the pre-2000 Bird Hunter series, I can’t remember.

[boreal heron]

I never realized how large the difference between the two is

[buoyant sonnet]

They really are, I think the Eurasian woodcocks is much prettier imo. EW could easily use the same model and behaviours for both species though with different textures.

[boreal heron]

Yeah, I prefer American tho

[buoyant sonnet]

I’d also love to see snipe in game too. Both could exist on the same maps with woodcock in the more forested regions and snipe around wetlands much like waterfowl.

[boreal heron]

Yeah they could add snipe landing on little sticks or fenceposts as a special behaviour similar to racoon trashcan behavior

[buoyant sonnet]

That would be cool, I’d love a waterfowl like species I could stalk rather than decoy.

[boreal heron]

Some other legal but special waterfowl would be coots, Sora's, rails, moorhens and similar as legal waterfowl in the us, mute swans are legal in Germany and could be added to Hirsch and salz and the Australian swamphen is legal game in NZ and could be found on meadows sorounding waterways in te awaroa

[buoyant sonnet]

I’d love pūkeko on Te Awaroa lol

[finite sigil]

Bird Hunter 2003 Trophy Season and Cabela's Trophy Bucks

[unborn anvil]

Yes of course

[meager forge]

This is neither American woodcock nor Eurasian woodcock. It is Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago).

[buoyant sonnet]

I know, I asked for snipe in the next question down. Just forgot to add the text alongside the image.

[meager forge]

Ok

To hunt woodcock, I would get an English Setter because it is a dog specialized in hunting these birds.

[unborn anvil]

Yes very good idea !

[boreal heron]

I think they would be a new challenge there like the hardest things to hit for upland hunters

[unborn anvil]

Real

[unborn anvil]

Vote !

[fierce quiver]

sure, but I just hope the devs don't make a woodcock that flies straight and slowly like a pheasant.

[cold frigate]

I assume they’d work more similarly to the quail or grouse but with upped speed

[unborn anvil]

Yes it’s very important !

[grand heath]

the name is questionable, but it will be a good add-on

[unborn anvil]

Why

[unborn anvil]

?

[ashen kelp]

It is a magnificent animal.

[fervent flame]

Too small

[boreal heron]

How is it too small?

[quaint prawn]

Same size as stubble quail

[boreal heron]

They are a common game species and 3 times the weight of a stubble quail so I don't see why they shouldn't add them the biggest challenge would be that they are very fast making them harder to hit in-game

[quaint prawn]

I couldn’t have summed it up better.

Agree 110%

[boreal heron]

Funnily enough I'm very bad with language as I speak 3 languages more ore less fluently and another 2 at a base level so I get a bunch of similar words, grammar rules and spellings messed up. I also hate grammar so I'm bad at that especially in English (who thought having their, they're and there was a good idea 😭)ik it by now

[cold frigate]

lol language is always tough, way I was taught the there/their/they’re difference is this,
“Place” and “there” do not have i’s, while “their” and “mine” do, and I always just read “they’re” as “they are” in my head as that is what the contraction is anyhow.

Ik you know the language well but figured I’d share my “cheat sheet” anyway, might help someone else out, who knows haha.

[boreal heron]

Ye ik that by now but fortunately

[unborn anvil]

Beautiful !

[unborn anvil]

Vote !

[unborn anvil]

!!

[unborn anvil]

!!

[fervent flame]

The adult woodcock is around the size of the average adult human palm

[boreal heron]

Other species in game are even smaller

[unborn anvil]

Yes of course

[unborn anvil]

Vote !

[mossy ocean]

Woodcock and North American grouse species are absolutely lacking in this game. They would be great additions.

[unborn anvil]

Yes of course

[meager forge]

I hope it is added to the Scotland map.
The Eurasian Woodcock with the ‘blonde’ variation. “The Golden Eurasian Woodcock”
Image Credit: gwct.org.uk

[mossy ocean]

It's official, we're getting Woodcock!

[meager forge]

I’ll be looking out for this ‘blonde’ woodcock!

[meager forge]

Exhibition 🥰

[boreal heron]

https://tenor.com/view/meep-meep-bird-meep-bird-poop-gif-14218360047959464677

[blazing parrot]

Has anyone else noticed that one of the images in the original post is a snipe, not a woodcock?

[meager forge]

It is a Snipe