American woodcock live in wet thickets, moist woods, and brushy swamps. Wide swamps, deep morasses, tangled thickets, and wild, impassable forests were their prevailing features. It is found in thickets, woodland edges with riparian thickets, shrubbery and brushy areas. These inhabit thickets within dense and dry savanna woodlands. This azalea blooms in the spring in moist wooded areas along streams, thickets, and swamps. They like dense ground cover of reeds, rushes, heather, bushes and willow thickets. Nests are also constructed in thickets, orchards, and scrubby woods. The shrubs can form large, dense thickets. It included a dozen villages and hamlets scattered between thickets, meadows and woods. Black-billed magpies frequent open country with thickets and scattered trees, especially riparian groves. Instead, they form aggregations called patches, banks, bioherms, massifs, thickets or groves. Native antelope roamed at will between the dense thickets of wattles. These areas tend to be short thickets and shrubs. It nests in caves, hollow trees, or thickets. They are common in the Olympics, preferring wet scrubby thickets and second growth timber.