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Amami woodcock
The Amami woodcock (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than the Eurasian woodcock, and may be conspecific. This species is a restricted-range endemic found only in forests on Amami Oshima, Okinawa and Tokunoshima.[2] Consequently, due to the introduction of the invasive small Indian mongoose, their population is declining.[3] Insofar as its habits are known, they are similar to the Eurasian woodcock. Taxonomy and systematicsThe Amami woodcock was originally described as a subspecies of the Eurasian woodcock, due to a juvenile that resembled the Eurasian woodcock in coloration. Later, some argued that the Amami woodcock was a distinct species—Kobayashi in 1979 and Cramp & Simmons in 1983. Comparison between the two species revealed their distinct physical features, and led to the emergence of the Amami woodcock as a distinct species.[4] References
Further readingShorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scolopax mira.
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