noun
common treecreeper; Eurasian treecreeper
A small songbird (Certhia familiaris) that climbs tree trunks in a spiral pattern. In Japanese, usually written in katakana as キバシリ.
キバシリは木の幹をらせん状に登る小鳥です。
The treecreeper is a small bird that climbs tree trunks in a spiral pattern.
森でキバシリのさえずりを聞いた。
I heard the song of a treecreeper in the forest.
The name キバシリ literally means 'tree-runner', from 木 (ki, 'tree') and 走り (hashiri, 'running'), describing the bird's characteristic behavior of running up tree trunks.