Sentences with word «jacana»

«A male jacana sits on the nest, watching the mother of the chicks he will raise, while she continues to mate with other males nearby.»

Then, in the hush, sudden movement: moorhens, thrushes, green imperial pigeons, pheasant - tailed jacana, all colourful birds squealing out of the underbrush as we approached.

Wattled jacanas are black, quail - sized birds with puffy red faces and extremely long toes that wade through the marshes and slow - flowing rivers of Central and South America.

Since jacana females have completely lost the instinct to brood, the males are the only hope for chicks.

Look for black turtles, whistling ducks, roseate spoonbills, cormorants, anhingas, blue heron, and northern jacanas.

Dainty jacanas (also known as Jesus birds or lily trotters) lightly walk on the lily pads while the crocodiles bask in the morning sunlight.

Enjoy exploring the lake to find cormorants, horned screamers, kingfishers, herons, panguanas, parrots, and jacanas in the areas close to the lodge.

The wetlands of Kakadu are a birdwatcher's paradise, due to the immense concentration of waterbirds, including magpie geese, whistling ducks, great egrets, royal spoonbills, black - winged stilts, great - billed herons, brolgas, comb - crested jacanas and black - necked storks (jabirus).

If male jacana could sing the blues, these birds would have plenty to wail about.

«The jacana is the ultimate in female liberation,» says Cornell University ornithologist Stephen Emlen.

Curious as to whether the males might benefit from the situation by passing on more of their own genes, Emlen and his colleagues observed the mating and egg - laying habits of the jacanas on the Chagres River in Panama for 6 years.