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Scolopax
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Eurasian Woodcock
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Genus: Scolopax
Eurasian woodcock
(Rẽ gà , Nhát bà, Scolopax rusticola)The Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia.
The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines.The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.
The genus name Scolopaxis Latin for a snipe or woodcock.
The specific epithet rusticola is derived from Latin and refers to a "country dweller" or "rural inhabitant", stemming from the Latin words rusticus (rural) and colere (to live or cultivate). -
Scolopax
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
Scolopax, commonly known as woodcock, is a genus of wading birds in the family Scolopacidae.
The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock.1/ Eurasian woodcock (Rẽ gà , Nhát bà, Scolopax rusticola)
The specific epithet rusticola is the Latin name of a gamebird which was possibly a grouse.