Kingdom Animalia Class Aves Family Picidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Piciformes Genus Dendrocopos | |
Similar Guatemalan flicker, Pampas flicker, Black‑dotted piculet, Rusty‑necked piculet, Yellow‑faced flameback | ||
The Amami woodpecker (Dendrocopos owstoni) is a bird in the family Picidae found only on Amami Ōshima in the Ryukyu Islands south of Japan. The species is confined to mature evergreen broadleaf forest in the hills of the island. It specialises in eating large wood-boring insects. It was previously considered conspecific with the white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos). The Amami woodpecker is still considered as a subspecies of the white-backed woodpecker in the list maintained by the International Ornithologists' Union.
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