- Dusky Woodcock
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Dusky Woodcock Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Genus: Scolopax Species: S. saturata Binomial name Scolopax saturata
Horsfield, 1821The Dusky Woodcock or Rufous Woodcock, Scolopax saturata, is a small wader. It is smaller than Eurasian Woodcock, and has much darker plumage.
This species is restricted to wet mountain forests on Sumatra and Java. It nests on a bed of moss in light undergrowth. It has a "roding" display flight like Eurasian Woodcock, but the calls are different. It can be very tame.
The former New Guinean subspecies rosenbergii, described by Hermann Schlegel in 1871, is currently given a full species status.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Scolopax saturata. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
Further reading
Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2
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