"Meet the jacana: a bird that defies much of what you thought you knew about nature. With its precise and elegant steps, it appears to walk on water, moving across water lilies and floating leaves as if it were gliding through the air."
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Female pheasant-tailed #jacanas are polyandrous, meaning they leave clutches of eggs with different male partners. The fathers, who perform all parental duties including incubation, carry the chicks under their wings, creating the spectacle of a lone bird with multiple legs sticking out of his body.
During the 2000s, hundreds of #jacanas died from ingesting seeds mixed with poisonous grain in an outdated field-sowing practice for deterring birds. Farmers in south #Taiwan have since pivoted to organic practices centered on floating aquatic plants like the mustache nut.
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"The time allocated in parental behaviors differed between the sexes and across the pre-laying, #incubation, and post-hatching stages..."
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Y-M Kuo, et al
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Sexually Different Parental Inputs in Pheasant-tailed #Jacanas & the Correlates with Brood Success
Y-M Kuo, Y-F Lee, B-Y Chuang, Y-J Kuo, H-C Hsu, Y-Y Chiang, Y-L Tai, S-L Chang, C-Y Lin, Y-J Huang,
W-C Lee
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นกพริก (Bronze-winged Jacana) 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴
นกพริก (Bronze-winged Jacana) 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴
Bronze-winged Jacana male parent & #chicks walking on floating vegetation in a suburban #wetland in #Thailand. Apart from the remarkably long toes, #jacanas are well-known for their amazing ability in carrying their chicks under the wing!
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🌍 African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) The African Jacana is a striking bird with a chestnut body, a black crown, hindneck, and eye stripe. Its blue bill extends up as a head shield, whilst its face, neck and chest is white, graduating into yellow. Its most notable feature is its extremely long legs and toes, which allow it to walk on floating vegetation like lily pads. It is found in freshwater wetlands across sub-Saharan Africa. 2.5 Flash (Edited) No subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by josibo via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/jacana-bird-water-fowl-animal-6788452/ GNNV
🌍 African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) #AfricanBirds | #AfricanJacana #ActophilornisAfricanus | #AfricanJacanas #Jacanas #JacanaFamily #Shorebirds 📷: Photo by josibo🦜 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds
