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Bukidnon woodcock

(Scolopax bukidnonensis)

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Description

The Bukidnon woodcock is rich reddish-brown above,finely barred and vermiculated with black and broadly barred with blackish markings across the crown,the underparts are paler and buffer.The eye is placed high and far back on the head,and the beak is long with a flexible tip to extract worms and other invertebrates from the soil.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Scolopacidae
Genus:Scolopax
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