Amami Woodcock

Amami Woodcock

Taxobox
name = Amami Woodcock
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Scolopacidae
genus = "Scolopax"
species = "S. mira"
binomial = "Scolopax mira"
binomial_authority = Hartert, 1916

The Amami Woodcock, "Scolopax mira", is a medium sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than Eurasian Woodcock, and may be [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conspecific conspecific] .

This species is a Restricted-range endemic found only in forests on two small islands of the Amami Islands chain in South Japan. Insofar as its habits are known, they are similar to Eurasian Woodcock.

Further reading

"Shorebirds" by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2979&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]


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