Brown-cheeked rail
| Brown-cheeked rail Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent, 534,000 - 0.00 years ago | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Rallus |
| Species: | R. indicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Rallus indicus Blyth, 1849 | |
Breeding summer visitor (ranges are approximate)Resident year-round Winter visitor | |
The brown-cheeked rail or eastern water rail (Rallus indicus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It breeds in northern Mongolia, eastern Siberia, northeast China, Korea and northern Japan, and winters in southeast Asia. It used to be considered a subspecies of the water rail.