jacana

The northern jacana has a dark brown body with a black head and neck.

The kind of bird called the jacana is one.

For the origin and pronunciation of the name, see Jacana.

This is the only jacana to have a different breeding plumage.

These leaves provide the lily-trotter, or jacana, with a unique floating home.

The pheasant-tailed jacana seems to walk on the water.

Jacana returned to resume the patrol and completed it without further incident.

The northern jacana is unusual among birds in having a polyandrous society.

When a jacana is in flight, its yellow primary and secondary feathers are visible.

A female jacana can lay up to eight clutches of eggs, each one in a different male's nest.

A female jacana lives in a territory that encompasses the territories of 1-4 males.

While this is a major increase over a short period of time, prices in Jacana are still far below the average for Melbourne.

The jacana competes with birds of a similar diet like the Sora.

He was recruited from Jacana at the age of 19 as a half-back flanker.

But, researchers say, for jacana males it should be easy to surmise whether they are cuckolds.

That's Gilly Jacana and he passed out more than an hour ago."

Johnson grew up in Jacana, a northern suburb of Melbourne.

Two pheasant-tailed jacana chicks and eggs on a lily pad nest.

Like other jacana species, it is adapted to the floating vegetation of tropical freshwater wetlands.

Female liberation is the norm amongst jacanas like this pheasant-tailed jacana.

Both the street and the suburb are slightly to the north of the Jacana railway station, which was built to service the suburb in 1959.

The operation is named after an African bird type, jacana, described in one manual as "shy, retiring, easily overlooked".

Flocks of jacana flash bright yellow in flight, turning jet black with wings folded.

The first release, the Fit Jacana, occurred in March.