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*''Other Names'': アガチ ''(agachi)'', アガチャー ''(agachaa)'', ヤマドゥイ ''(yamadui)''
*''Japanese'': ヤンバルクイナ ''(Yanbaru kuina)''
*''Japanese'': ヤンバルクイナ ''(Yanbaru kuina)''
The ''Yanbaru kuina'' is a species of flightless bird, a rail, endemic to the [[Yanbaru]] region of northern [[Okinawa Island]].
The ''Yanbaru kuina'' is a species of flightless bird, a rail, endemic to the [[Yanbaru]] region of northern [[Okinawa Island]]. It is the only flightless bird species in Japan.
They are known to eat a variety of fruits and small creatures, including bayberries (J: ''yamamomo''), snails, earthworms, and insects.
Though formally described and established as a new species by scientists only in 1981, the bird had been well-known to locals whose work took them into the forests; it was traditionally known by several names, including ''agachi'' or ''agachaa'' (a word related to the Japanese ''awateru'', describing the bird as rushing around, easily flustered), and simply as ''yamadui'' ("mountain bird").
They are known to eat a variety of fruits and small creatures, including bayberries (J: ''yamamomo''), snails, earthworms, and insects. Though flightless, they climb trees and sleep high in the branches in order to avoid predators.
Kuina populations are endangered by development, cars and other human sources of danger, and by the island's invasive [[mongoose]] population.<ref>Gallery labels, Okinawa Prefectural Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/9511497423/sizes/l]</ref>
Kuina populations are endangered by development, cars and other human sources of danger, and by the island's invasive [[mongoose]] population.<ref>Gallery labels, Okinawa Prefectural Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/9511497423/sizes/l]</ref>
==References==
==References==
*Gallery labels, Yama to Mizu Seikatsu Hakubutsukan, Higashi Village, Okinawa.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49599706951/sizes/l/]
*Gallery labels, Yama to Mizu Seikatsu Hakubutsukan, Higashi Village, Okinawa.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49599706951/sizes/l/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49599963507/sizes/h/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49599705296/in/photostream/]
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Flora and Fauna]]
[[Category:Flora and Fauna]]