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OSAKA, Japan - An Okinawa Rail, a critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa, is suspended inside its cage to maintain upright posture, a measure to help in its rehabilitation after its spinal cord was damaged, at a facility run by a nonprofit group protecting wild animals in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 27, 2013. The bird, believed to have been hit by a car and found immobile on a road in the summer of 2011, has since been recovering and now undergoes walking training at the facility.

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Population of Okinawa Rail recovering

KUNIGAMI, Japan - Experts discuss a 10-year plan to preserve the Okinawa Rail, a flightless bird native to northern Okinawa Island and known locally as the Yambaru Kuina, at a meeting in December 2013 in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture.

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1,221 bird species threatened with extinction

TOKYO, Japan - The Okinawa rail, a nearly flightless bird endemic to Okinawa island, is among 1,221 bird species considered threatened with extinction in a report released by BirdLife International, a bird conservation group based in Cambridge, England. The population of Okinawa rail is estimated at between 1,200 and 1,680, confined to the Yambaru area in northern Okinawa. According to BirdLife, 83 bird species in Japan are threatened or near threatened with extinction out of approximately 10,000 bird species in the world.

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Microchips to be implanted into pet cats in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - The Environment Ministry plans to begin implanting microchips into pet cats, which will carry information about the cat and its owner, in a bid to protect endangered birds that are increasingly being preyed upon by stray cats. The ministry said Jan. 21 it hopes the move will protect endangered species such as the rare flightless bird, the Okinawa Rail (yambarukuina - in file photo), and the Okinawa Woodpecker (noguchigera), which live in the Yambaru region in Okinawa.

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Bumper breeding season boosts New Zealand endangered flightless parrots' population

STORY: Bumper breeding season boosts New Zealand endangered flightless parrots' population DATELINE: Aug. 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:13 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of New Zealand's critically endangered kakapo STORYLINE: The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, has increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. "There are now more of the endangered parrots than there have been for almost 50 years," Conservation Minister Poto Williams said in a statement on Tuesday. The flightless, nocturnal parrot is a species unique to New Zealand. They breed only every two to four years when the island country's rimu trees, or "red pine", produce enough fruit. During breeding seasons, the Department of Conservation (DOC) and Ngai Tahu, the principal Maori tribe of the South Island, aim to have as many kakapo chicks raised in nests as possible. They only intervene with hand-rearing when chicks are at risk. This season 49 were r

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NEW ZEALAND-FLIGHTLESS PARROTS-POPULATION

(220809) -- WELLINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows a Kakapo at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin, New Zealand. The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, have increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

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NEW ZEALAND-FLIGHTLESS PARROTS-POPULATION

(220809) -- WELLINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows a Kakapo at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin, New Zealand. The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, have increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

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NEW ZEALAND-FLIGHTLESS PARROTS-POPULATION

(220809) -- WELLINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows a Kakapo at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin, New Zealand. The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, have increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

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NEW ZEALAND-FLIGHTLESS PARROTS-POPULATION

(220809) -- WELLINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows a Kakapo at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin, New Zealand. The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, have increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

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NEW ZEALAND-FLIGHTLESS PARROTS-POPULATION

(220809) -- WELLINGTON, Aug. 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows a Kakapo at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin, New Zealand. The population of New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrots, kakapo, have increased from 197 to 252 in the 2022 breeding season. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

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1,221 bird species threatened with extinction

TOKYO, Japan - The Okinawa rail, a nearly flightless bird endemic to Okinawa island, is among 1,221 bird species considered threatened with extinction in a report released by BirdLife International, a bird conservation group based in Cambridge, England. The population of Okinawa rail is estimated at between 1,200 and 1,680, confined to the Yambaru area in northern Okinawa. According to BirdLife, 83 bird species in Japan are threatened or near threatened with extinction out of approximately 10,000 bird species in the world. (Kyodo)

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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (2009)

Manny, Ellie, Crash & Eddie Characters: Dinosaur Babies / Flightless Bird (voice),Diego,Bird (voice) & Buck Film: Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs; Ice Age 3 (2009) Director: Carlos Saldanha 01 July 2009 Date: 01 July 2009

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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (2009)

Manny & Diego Characters: Dinosaur Babies / Flightless Bird (voice) & Diego Film: Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs; Ice Age 3 (2009) Director: Carlos Saldanha 01 July 2009 Date: 01 July 2009

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Road accidents threaten flightless Okinawan bird

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied undated file photo shows an Okinawa Rail in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. The critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa is under increasing threat from road traffic, with a record high number of accidents so far in 2011, the Environment Ministry's Yambaru Wildlife Conservation Center said on Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo courtesy of Environment Ministry)(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE)(Kyodo)

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - An Okinawa Rail, a critically endangered, flightless bird found only in northern Okinawa, is suspended inside its cage to maintain upright posture, a measure to help in its rehabilitation after its spinal cord was damaged, at a facility run by a nonprofit group protecting wild animals in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 27, 2013. The bird, believed to have been hit by a car and found immobile on a road in the summer of 2011, has since been recovering and now undergoes walking training at the facility. (Kyodo)

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Flightless JAL pilots making debuts finally after 2010 bankruptcy

Japan Airlines Co. pilot Tatsuhiko Senzaki speaks at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Feb. 27, 2017. Around 100 people who joined the company as pilot candidates but never had a chance to work in the air due to the airline's 2010 bankruptcy are finally making their debuts on domestic flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Microchips to be implanted into pet cats in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - The Environment Ministry plans to begin implanting microchips into pet cats, which will carry information about the cat and its owner, in a bid to protect endangered birds that are increasingly being preyed upon by stray cats. The ministry said Jan. 21 it hopes the move will protect endangered species such as the rare flightless bird, the Okinawa Rail (yambarukuina - in file photo), and the Okinawa Woodpecker (noguchigera), which live in the Yambaru region in Okinawa. (Kyodo)