Yanbaru kuina
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The Yanbaru kuina is a species of flightless bird, a rail, endemic to the Yanbaru region of northern Okinawa Island.
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.[1]
