Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Amami Woodcock (Scolopax mira) - HBW 3, p. 489
French: Bécasse d'Amami
German: Amamischnepfe
Spanish: Chocha de Amami
Taxonomy: Scolopax rusticola mira Hartert, 1916, Amami-O-shima.
Forms superspecies with S. rusticola, of which often considered a subspecies. Monotypic.
Distribution: Amami-O-shima, Tokuno-shima, Okinawa and Tokashiki Is (C Ryukyu Is).
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A range restricted vulnerable species found only in northern Okinawa (rare) and on Amami Island and a few smaller outer islands.
Locality Amami Ōshima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Monotypic species)
Daniel Smith 23 April 2009 2 years ago 3.7
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