| Brown-cheeked rail Temporal range: Pleistocene to Recent, 534,000 - 0.00 years ago
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Rallus |
| Species: | R. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Rallus indicus Blyth, 1849
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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.[2] It used to be considered a subspecies of the water rail.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Rallus indicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22725167A94886234. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22725167A94886234.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Taylor & van Perlo (2000) p. 29