| Javan woodcock | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Scolopax |
| Species: | S. saturata |
| Binomial name | |
| Scolopax saturata Horsfield, 1821 | |
The Javan woodcock (Scolopax saturata) or rufous woodcock is a small wader restricted to wet mountain forests on Sumatra and western Java. It nests on a bed of moss in light undergrowth. It has a "drumming" display flight like the Eurasian woodcock, but the calls are different.
It is smaller than Eurasian woodcock, and has much darker plumage. It was formerly considered to be conspecific (that is, of the same species) with the New Guinea woodcock and was called the dusky woodcock.
Numbers of the species are currently decresing, and the current population is estimated at between 2500 and 10,000 adults, split across between ten and fifty subpopulations. One generation usually spans a little over four years.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2023). "Scolopax saturata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T22693060A183206055. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T22693060A183206055.en. Retrieved 18 Feb 2023.
Further reading
- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2
- Mittermeier, John C.; Burner, Ryan C.; et al. (2014). "Vocalisations and display behaviour of Javan Woodcock Scolopax saturata support its status as a distinct species". Forktail. 30: 130–131 – via ResearchGate.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Scolopax saturata | |
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