Shorebirds / Waders of Australasia
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in a channel of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
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hunting in the Zambezi, Zimbabwe
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The wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) is a wader which is a resident breeder from western Panama and Trinidad south through most of South America east of the Andes. The wattled jacana's food is insects (such as beetles, grasshoppers and crickets), other invertebrates (ticks and mollusks), small fish, roots and seeds picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.
The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. The Pantanal ecosystem is also thought to be home to 1000 bird species, 400 fish species, 300 mammalian species, 480 reptile species and over 9000 different subspecies of invertebrates.
Brazil, Pantanal
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The only Jacana or Lillytrotter in the Australasian region. This attractive species occurs from the Philippines south through Wallacea to north and east Australia.
Kruger National Park.
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African Jacana - Victoria Nile River, Murchison Falls National Park, Paraa, Uganda
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Morning river cruise on the Victoria Nile from Paraa to the Delta. Private small boat trip provided by Wild Frontiers Uganda Safaris.
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Queensland, Australia
Irediparra gallinacea
Australische jacana
Jacana à crête
Kammblatthühnchen
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Scientific name: Jacana jacana
Common name: Wattled Jacana
Nombre: Jacana Negra
Lugar de la captura: Panamá
Actophilornis africanus, Jacana africana (Juv) Chobe
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in Llanos Orientales, Colombia
Jacana jacana
Leljacana
Jacana noir
Rotstirn-Blatthühnchen
Jacana Suramericana
Jacana caruncolata
jaçanã / jaçanã-de-fronte-vermelha
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African jacanas feed on insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the surface of the water.
Gambia, Kotu
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late afternoon in Llanos Orientales, Colombia
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Jacana jacana
Leljacana
Jacana noir
Rotstirn-Blatthühnchen
Jacana Suramericana
Jacana caruncolata
jaçanã / jaçanã-de-fronte-vermelha
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Jaçanã ou Cafezinho
Wattled Jacana
Jacana jacana (nome científico)
Charadriiformes (ordem)
Jacanidae (família)
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Pantanal
Mato Grosso, Brasil
African Jacanas are an absolute delight to watch!
They are equipped with long, gangly legs and clawed toes, making it possible for them to walk over floating hydrophytes (usually water lilies) with impressive agility. They forage along the fringes of wetlands and slowly meandering rivers, feeding on insects, larvae, worms, crustaceans and sometimes seeds.
Size: Height ±32 cms. Weight ±140 gms.
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landing in the Chobe river, Botswana
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The African jacana (actophilornis africanus) is a wader in the family Jacanidae. It has long toes and long claws that enables it to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, its preferred habitat. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa. African jacanas feed on insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the surface of the water.
Gambia, Kotu
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RKO_1398. Walking over "water".....
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I just loved finding these lovely birds again at the same reserve I saw them 13 years ago on our last Australia trip.
The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their wide feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. The pheasant-tailed jacana is capable of swimming, although it usually walks on the vegetation. The females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.
In breeding plumage
Taken at Sandy Camp Rd Wetlands Reserve, Lytton, Queensland.
Aka Lotusbird.
With its long legs and oversized feet, at first glance the Comb-crested Jacana appears particularly ungainly. However, anyone who has watched one nimbly picking its way across precarious platforms of floating aquatic vegetation would disagree. Similarly, those strangely elongated appendages would seem to render any attempts at long-distance movements problematical. Again, this is incorrect. They have been occasionally recorded as making very long distance journeys.
Birdlife Australia.
The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their wide feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. The pheasant-tailed jacana is capable of swimming, although it usually walks on the vegetation. The females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.
these jacanas breed on floating vegetation from March to July. In southern India, it breeds in the monsoon season, June–September. They are polyandrous and a female may lay up to 10 clutches. Four black-marked brown eggs are laid in the floating nests.
The pheasant-tailed jacana's main sources of food are insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.
A young Pheasant-tailed Jacana clicked in its natural habitat. As seen in this shot young birds have brown upper parts and the necklace that is dark in the adults is lighter in colour and is broken. It is mostly sedentary and found on small to large lakes having sufficient floating vegetation.
African Jacana, Gabon.
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Haven't yet captured this bird in its exotic breeding plumage that is marked by the elongated central tail feathers that has given the bird its name. It is a resident breeder in tropical India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Its diet consists of insects, molluscs, and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.