Dusky woodcock

Dusky Woodcock

Template:Regnum:	Animalia
Template:Phylum:	Chordata
Template:Classis:	Aves
Template:Ordo:	Charadriiformes
Template:Familia:	Scolopacidae
Template:Genus:	Scolopax
[[{{{1}}}{{{2}}} {{{3}}}\|{{{1}}}. {{{3}}}]]:	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, Java and New Guinea. 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 subspecies S. s. rosenbergii (Schlegel, 1871) is sometimes given species status.

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