Amami woodcock
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| Stuffed specimen of Scolopax mira at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. | |
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| Species: | S. mira
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| Scolopax mira Hartert, 1916
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The Amami woodcock (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than Eurasian woodcock, and may be 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.
References
Further reading
Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2
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