American Woodcock Trucker Cap
American Woodcock Trucker Cap
Size & fit
One size fits most, with an adjustable plastic snapback. Structured six-panel, mid profile, pre-curved visor; mesh back.
Scolopax minor, the American woodcock's name today, stitched across the front. No picture and no slogan: the people who know it will read it.
The cap
- The species' scientific name today, embroidered in white on the front, genus over species, set in EB Garamond italic.
- Richardson 112 trucker: 60% cotton, 40% polyester front with a 100% polyester mesh back.
- Spot clean; don't put it in the dryer.
Shipping & production
Each one is made for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay; items from different makers may arrive in separate boxes.
Returns
If your cap arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every cap is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Field notes
Its eyes moved so far back that its brain turned upside down.
The 1896 New York game report didn't waste words on the woodcock's looks. It noted that the eyes are "inserted at an unusual distance from the bill" and listed its names: bog-sucker, mud snipe, blind snipe. Most people who know it best say timberdoodle.
Those eyes are the key to the bird. A woodcock feeds by pushing its long bill deep into soft ground for earthworms. Head down, it's exposed, so its eyes sit high and far back, giving it nearly all-round vision while the bill is buried. The rearrangement went deep: its brain is essentially upside down compared with other birds'.
In the hand it looks like an evolutionary joke. In the air in April it's anything but. At dusk the male calls peent from a clearing, then spirals two or three hundred feet up on twittering wings and tumbles back down singing. Aldo Leopold called it the sky dance.