A brown and grey aquatic Asian rail, the male of which develops black plumage and a red frontal shield in the breeding season.
董鸡
Gallicrex cinerea, family Rallidae
Example sentencesExamples
Birds caught in northern Bekasi for sale purposes are usually watercocks and egrets.
Three poachers were caught red-handed trying to lure watercocks and yellow bitterns by using a recording of a bird's mating call here yesterday.
Indian blue-breasted banded rail, slatylegged banded crake, northern ruddy crake, whitebreasted waterhen, watercock, Indian moorhen, Indian purple moorhen are resident birds and can be seen on ponds, inundated paddy fields, etc.
Definition of watercock in US English:
watercock
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A brown and gray aquatic Asian rail, the male of which develops black plumage and a red frontal shield in the breeding season.
董鸡
Gallicrex cinerea, family Rallidae
Example sentencesExamples
Three poachers were caught red-handed trying to lure watercocks and yellow bitterns by using a recording of a bird's mating call here yesterday.
Indian blue-breasted banded rail, slatylegged banded crake, northern ruddy crake, whitebreasted waterhen, watercock, Indian moorhen, Indian purple moorhen are resident birds and can be seen on ponds, inundated paddy fields, etc.
Birds caught in northern Bekasi for sale purposes are usually watercocks and egrets.