Japanese pygmy woodpecker
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Japanese pygmy woodpeckers use short bursts of drumming to signal breeding activity and territory.
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Japanese pygmy woodpeckers use short bursts of drumming to signal breeding activity and territory.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese pygmy woodpecker
- Scientific name
- Yungipicus kizuki
- Japanese name
- コゲラ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Yungipicus
About the size of a sparrow, it is Japan's tiniest woodpecker. It lives everywhere from forests to towns.
Its back is dark brown with white bars, and it has white mottled markings on the back of its neck.
It clings upright to tree trunks and spirals upward, searching the bark for spiders and insects to eat.
How the Japanese pygmy woodpecker lives
Their breeding season begins in spring. They eat berries as well as insects. They make a call that sounds like "gii".
観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース神奈川県自然環境保全センターBasic data
- Size
- Total length: 15 cm
- Diet
- Spiders, insects and fruit
Where the Japanese pygmy woodpecker has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コゲラ
- 简体中文
- 小星头啄木鸟
- 繁體中文
- 小星頭啄木鳥
- 한국어
- 쇠딱따구리
- Español
- Pico kizuki
- Français
- Pic kisuki
- Deutsch
- Kizukispecht
- Português (Brasil)
- Pica-pau-kizuki
- Italiano
- Picchio pigmeo
- العربية
- نقار الخشب القزم الياباني
- Tiếng Việt
- Dendrocopos kizuki
- Русский
- Малый острокрылый дятел
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース — キツツキChecked: 2026-11-03
- 神奈川県自然環境保全センター — 野外施設で一年中みられる鳥Checked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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