Japanese Green Woodpecker (Picus awokera)
About the Japanese Green Woodpecker
Japanese green woodpecker or Japanese woodpecker (Picus awokera) is a medium-sized woodpecker similar and closely related to the European green woodpecker, but endemic to Japan. This species reaches about 30 cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the green woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings. The bill is yellow, the legs and feet are light gray colored. The iris is red. This woodpecker is loudly before and after the breeding season. Their known calls are an individually, loud and whip-crack-similar pijo, and a ket, ket with two syllables. They also drum, and these drumrolls are very fast and long.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 19 recordings for this species: 10 CC BY-NC-ND · 9 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Japan in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- European Green WoodpeckerPicus viridisrecording
- Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canusrecording
- Laced WoodpeckerPicus vittatusrecording
- Lesser YellownapePicus chlorolophusrecording
- Streak-throated WoodpeckerPicus xanthopygaeusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.