noun The Japanese crested ibis, a rare bird native to Japan (Nipponia nippon).
- The Toki or Japanese crested ibis (ibis nippon) is an almost extinct kind of bird resembling the heron.
— Frederic de Garis, Atsuharu Sakai (1934)
- The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
— A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan, Tokyo: Kodansha International (1982)
- Conservationists have worked for decades to bring the toki back from near extinction.
- The few remaining toki live on Sado Island in Japan and in China.
— Look Japan (1988)
