corncrake

British  

/ ˈkɔːnˌkreɪk /

noun

1. a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings

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Example Sentences

“We don’t reward farmers for having a corncrake on their land, we reward them for having the habitat,” Mr. Carey said.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

But in Western Europe, over thousands of years, the corncrake also adapted to the similar conditions that were created by traditional, low-intensity farming in grassland meadows and field margins.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Rarities like the corncrake, with its distinctive rasping call, also arrive here to breed in the summer.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2017

As the sun finally sets towards midnight on the summer solstice, the standing stones of Callanish echo to a strange rasping sound: the repetitive, two-note call of the corncrake.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2013

And once they heard a corncrake calling as it crept among the long grass of a path verge.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams