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Eurasian Woodcock
Scolopax rusticola · Family Scolopacidae
Scolopax rusticola
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 681,252
- Countries and territories with records
- 103
About this species
This species has 681,252 occurrence records from 103 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (32.5%), France (21%), Norway (10.7%), the United Kingdom (6.7%) and Denmark (6%); together they account for 76.9% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Scolopax rusticola combines the genus name Scolopax with the species epithet rusticola. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Scolopax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Scolopax minor, Scolopax bukidnonensis and Scolopax mira.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is close to the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.