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Celebes Woodcock

Sulawesi Woodcock
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family:Scolopacidae
Genus: Scolopax
Species:celebensis
Binomial name
Scolopax celebensis
The Sulawesi Woodcock or Celebes Woodcock, Scolopax celebensis, is a medium sized wader. It is larger and darker than Eurasian Woodcock, and small reddish spots.

This species is restricted to wet mountain forests on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Little is known of its habits.

Further reading

Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater, ISBN 0-7099-2034-2

 

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