Amami woodcock (English spelling: Scolopax mira)

Japanese: アマミヤマシギ（英語表記）Scolopax mira; Amami woodcock

Charadriiformes, Scolopacidae. Endemic to Japan. Total length about 36cm. Similar to the Woodcock, but slightly larger, with slightly longer legs. The head is pale brown with white brows, a thin blackish brown eye line, and four blackish brown horizontal bands from the top of the head to the back of the neck. The back and upper surfaces of the wings have a complex mottled pattern of brown, black, and white. The chest to belly has a dull white background with fine brown horizontal stripes. It breeds from Amami Oshima to Tokunoshima in the Amami Archipelago, and is distributed as a resident bird. It also lives in the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands in winter, but breeding has not been confirmed. It lives in forests, and can also be seen in fallow fields and marshes. (→Waders)

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Japanese:

チドリ目シギ科。日本固有種。全長約 36cm。ヤマシギに似るが，やや大きく，脚もやや長い。頭部は地色が淡い褐色で，眉斑が白く，細い黒褐色の過眼線があり，頭頂から後頸にかけて 4本の黒褐色の横帯がある。背や翼上面は褐色と黒色，白色の複雑なまだら模様である。胸から腹はくすんだ白地に褐色の細かい横縞模様がある。奄美群島の奄美大島から徳之島で繁殖し，留鳥として分布する。冬季は琉球諸島と大東諸島にも生息するが，繁殖は確認されていない。森林に生息し，休耕田や湿原にも姿を見せる。（→渉禽類）

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