ヒクイナ

noun

ruddy-breasted crake

A small waterbird (Porzana fusca) found in wetlands across East and Southeast Asia. In Japanese, the name is almost always written in katakana as ヒクイナ.

• 水すい田でんでヒクイナを見みかけた。

  I spotted a ruddy-breasted crake in the rice paddy.