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Pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) with a white head, brown body, and long tail feathers walking on lily pads in shallow water.
A pheasant-tailed jacana stands on floating vegetation with its chicks, sheltering them under its wings on a wetland, surrounded by green leaves and water.
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Pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) with a white head, brown body, and long tail feathers walking on lily pads in shallow water.
pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

Jacana

bird family
Also known as: Jacanidae, lily-trotter, lotus bird
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Jacana, any of several species of water birds belonging to the family Jacanidae of the order Charadriiformes. Jacanas are uniquely equipped with long straight claws for walking on floating vegetation. Like certain plovers, some jacanas have wing spurs.

The seven or eight species of the genus Jacana include the American jacana (Jacana spinosa), of the American tropics, variably black or reddish; the African jacana (Actophilornis africanus); the Australian lotus bird (Irediparra gallinacea) of New Guinea and the eastern Australian coast; and the pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus), of India and the Philippines, a handsome black, yellow, and white bird that acquires long tail feathers in breeding season.

A pheasant-tailed jacana stands on floating vegetation with its chicks, sheltering them under its wings on a wetland, surrounded by green leaves and water.
The Pheasant-Tailed Jacana Protects Its YoungThe male jacana gathers his young beneath his wings for protection—whether from predators or inclement weather.
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The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Meg Matthias.