The Amami woodcock (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader.

It is slightly larger and longer-legged than the Eurasian woodcock, and may be conspecific.

This species is a restricted-range endemic found only in forests on Amami Oshima, Okinawa and Tokunoshima.

[2] Consequently, due to the introduction of the invasive small Indian mongoose, their population is declining.

Later, some argued that the Amami woodcock was a distinct species—Kobayashi in 1979 and Cramp & Simmons in 1983.