Javan woodcock

Javan woodcock
File:Javan Woodcock, Gunung Gede Pangrango NP, Jawa Barat, Jawa Indonesia.jpg
Conservation status
File:Status iucn3.1 NT.svg Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

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.