awamakidori

Updated: July 14, 2025

It is called awamakidori or the 'millet-sowing bird, because when the farmers hear its cry they know that it is time to plant the millet. It is quite small and brown, extremely shy, and, so far as I can learn, altogether nocturnal in its habits.

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