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Japanese pygmy woodpecker
Yungipicus kizuki · Family Picidae
Yungipicus kizuki
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 74,241
- Countries and territories with records
- 7
About this species
This species has 74,241 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Japan (70.2%), South Korea (27.4%) and Russia (1.3%); together they account for 98.9% of the total. In Japan, this species accounts for 1.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Yungipicus kizuki combines the genus name Yungipicus with the species epithet kizuki. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Yungipicus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Yungipicus canicapillus, Yungipicus nanus and Yungipicus moluccensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 50th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 18.5% of the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.