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Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

eBird. 2024. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Kishida, K. 1931. Professor Watase and the import of mongooses. Zoological Magazine 43: 70-78.

Kobayashi, Y. 1930. On a collection of bird skin and eggs from the Riu Kiu Islands. Tori: 341-382.

Kotaka, N. 2014. Okinawa Woodpecker. In: Ministry of the Environment (ed.), Red data book 2014, pp. 64-65. GYOSEI Corporation, Tokyo.

Kotaka, N., Preble, J., Saito, K., Toguchi, Y., Kudaka, M., Sakoda, T. and Yagihashi, T. 2021. Recent nest tree use by the critically endangered Okinawa woodpecker in relation to forest age and two exotic forest pests. Journal of Forest Research 26(3): 192-200.

Kotaka, N.; Ozaki, K.; Toguchi, Y.; Kinjo, M.; Ishida, K. 2006. Extraordinary sexual differences in foraging niche in the Okinawa Woodpecker on a subtropical island. Journal of Ornithology 147(5): 196.

Yagihashi, T., Seki, S.-I., Nakaya, T., Nakata, K. and Kotaka, N, 2021. Eradication of the mongoose is crucial for the conservation of three endemic bird species in Yambaru, Okinawa Island, Japan. Biological Invasions 23: 2249-2260.

Yamada, F. and Sugimura, K. 2004. Negative impact of invasive small Indian mongoose Herpestes javanicus on native wildlife species and evaluation of its control project in Amami-Ohshima Island and Okiwana Island, Japan. Global Environment 8.

Detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001).

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Okinawa Woodpecker Dendrocopos noguchii. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/okinawa-woodpecker-dendrocopos-noguchii on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.