Okinawa rail
Amazing fact
The Okinawa rail bathes in streams or pools and finishes by stretching out its wings.
観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース
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The Okinawa rail bathes in streams or pools and finishes by stretching out its wings.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Okinawa rail
- Scientific name
- Gallirallus okinawae
- Japanese name
- ヤンバルクイナ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Gallirallus
Where the name “Okinawa rail” comes from
Its old names, agachaa and agachi, mean “jumpy” or “nervous”.
観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベースThis bird lives in northern Okinawa and nowhere else. It cannot fly, but it can run very fast.
It can leap straight from the ground up onto low branches, where it roosts to stay safe from predators.
Its favorite food is a land snail called the Yambaru snail, which it breaks open on rocks to eat.
Basic data
- Diet
- Yanbaru land snails
- Range
- Northern Okinawa
- Conservation status in Japan
- Critically Endangered (CR)Assessed as Hypotaenidia okinawaeMinistry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)
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
- ヤンバルクイナ
- 简体中文
- 冲绳秧鸡
- 繁體中文
- 山原水雞
- Español
- Rascón de Okinawa
- Français
- Râle d'Okinawa
- Deutsch
- Okinawaralle
- Português (Brasil)
- Sanã-de-okinawa
- Italiano
- Rallo di Okinawa
- العربية
- مرعة أوكيناوا
- Русский
- Ямбару-куина
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 — ヤンバルクイナ生体展示学習施設Checked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)Checked: 2026-11-07
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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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