Northern jacana

Jacana spinosa
Jacanas (Jacanidae)

The toes are wide.
Northern jacanaon RikenMon's Nature.Guide

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Red-brown body, black head and neck, yellow beak and front head, white beak base, bottom wings are yellowish white and it has long toes. The young have a white eyebrow and cheek. The ♀ is twice the size of the ♂.

Walks on water plants thanks to the wide long toes. Polyandric, meaning in the ♀ territory there can be 1-4 ♂. The ♂ builds the nest and tends to the chicks. ♀ helps to defend the nest and sometimes tends to the chicks as well.

⇔ l. 20-24 cm

syn. Jesus birds, Lily trotters

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