Woodcocks
Scolopax
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species
American Woodcock
speciesScolopax minor
Eurasian Woodcock
speciesScolopax rusticola
Amami Woodcock
speciesScolopax mira
Bukidnon Woodcock
speciesScolopax bukidnonensis
Javan Woodcock
speciesScolopax saturata
Sulawesi Woodcock
speciesScolopax celebensis
Moluccan Woodcock
speciesScolopax rochussenii
New Guinea Woodcock
speciesScolopax rosenbergii
Puerto Rican Woodcock
speciesScolopax anthonyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3929.