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The American jacana, or lily trotter, is a common waterbird of lagoons and marshes in Mexico and Central America. Jacanas have extremely long toes and claws for walking on floating vegetation.

Wading bird with very long toes and claws enabling it to walk on the floating leaves of water plants. There are seven species. Jacanas are found in Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, South Asia, and Australia, usually in marshy areas. (Family Jacanidae, order Charadriiformes.)

The Australian jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) is so well adapted to life on water that the eggs are laid on floating vegetation and can themselves float.

The common jacana (Jacana spinosa), of Brazil, is black with green plumage on the wings and a warm-brown neck. The female pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) of Asia has a ‘harem’ of two to four males.



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The jacanas are a small family of birds related to the waders, and are found in approximately the same regions as the Anhinga; they are also often found in the same habitat.
Southeast 3 NNE Maunabo 21 1611AST 3 WNW Yabucoa 2011AST Flooding was reported at Barrio Calabazas and and Barrio Jacanas in Yabucoa.
Darters, Screamers, Rails, Finfoots, Jacanas, Painted-Snipes, Stone Curlews, Seedsnipes and Skimmers were other species that have gone into decline, the report stated.
 
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