Any of various water birds of the family Rallidae, as the gallinule, rail, or coot, that inhabit marshland.

This isn't Sema's first work starring animals; the book "Koet" was made in collaboration with a pair of common coots (Sema "fed" the birds items which they incorporated in their nest).

The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.