Japanese Woodpecker

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Japanese Woodpecker
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae Genus: Picus Species: P. awokera
Binomial name
Picus awokera Temminck, 1836

Japanese Woodpecker (Picus awokera), also known as Japanese Green Woodpecker, is a medium-sized woodpecker similar and closely related to the Green Woodpecker, but endemic to Japan.

This species reaches about 30cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the Green Woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings.

Japanese Woodpecker is divided into at least two subspecies:

• P. a. awokera, the nominate subspecies, found on Honshū
• P. a. horii, native to Kyūshū

The binomial is a reference to the Japanese name of the species, aogera.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Picus awokera. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• Picus awokera (TSN 554120). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 4 February 2006.

[edit] External links

• Japanese Woodpecker at Avibase