Amami Woodcock
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Amami Woodcock | status = Conservation status: Vulnerable | 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 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.
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Further reading
Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2