Dusky Woodcock | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Scolopacidae |
Genus: | Scolopax |
Species: | S. saturata |
Binomial name | |
Scolopax saturata Horsfield, 1821 |
The Dusky Woodcock or Rufous Woodcock, Scolopax saturata, is a small wader. It is smaller than Eurasian Woodcock, and has much darker plumage.
This species is restricted to wet mountain forests on Sumatra and Java. It nests on a bed of moss in light undergrowth. It has a "roding" display flight like Eurasian Woodcock, but the calls are different. It can be very tame.
The former New Guinean subspecies rosenbergii, described by Hermann Schlegel in 1871, is currently given a full species status.
Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2