sakonboota

Updated: May 4, 2025

I saw a flock of long-billed waders, like small whimbrel, a great variety of beautiful little doves, and many of that queer bird the natives call Sakonboota, whose tail grows so long in the breeding season that his little wings can hardly lift it above the ground, and he flutters about in the breeze like a badly made kite.

Henry Woodd Nevinson - Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege