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Prefectural Natural Monument
Birds
White-bellied Woodpecker (specimen)
Dryocopus javensis richardsi
The Tsushima white-bellied woodpecker was a large, black woodpecker with a red head that lived on Tsushima. It disappeared from Japan in the Meiji era and is considered extinct. The designated item is a preserved, mounted specimen in Nagasaki, one of very few from Japan and valuable evidence of an extinct bird.
- Scientific name
- Dryocopus javensis richardsi
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Nagasaki
- 日本語
- キタタキ
- 简体中文
- 白腹黑啄木鸟（标本）
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The White-bellied Woodpecker (specimen) is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Nagasaki.
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