Snipes, Sandpipers 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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Lateral view of an individual on the ground.
Locality Amami Ōshima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Monotypic species)
Pete Morris 1 June 2005 18 weeks ago 4.3 -
A bird on the forest ground.
Locality Amami Ōshima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Monotypic species)
Pete Morris 1 July 2002 14 weeks ago 3.8 -
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 3 years ago 3.7
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