pheasant-tailed jacana
hydrophasianus chirurgus latin

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

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

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

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is capable of swimming, although it usually walks on the vegetation.

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a conspicuous and unmistakable bird.

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana's main sources of food are insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana breeds in India, southeast Asia, and Indonesia.

The Pheasant-Tailed Jacana population in Tainan Taiwan, which at one point numbered less than 50, has increased to over 300.

The male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them, leaving the hen free to lay again in other nests in her territory.

In 2007, the recovery habitat was officially renamed "Pheasant-tailed Jacana Eco-Educational Nature Park" and since then, it has opened to the public.

It is also home to some of the most endangered reptiles such as the Russell's viper and birds such as the glossy ibis, grey-headed lapwings and pheasant-tailed jacana.

For more than 10 years, THSRC has been devoted to the preservation of the Pheasant-Tailed Jacana, a type of bird that is considered endangered in Taiwan.

Some of the key species which measure to the international status of this wetland are: Greater Flamingos, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Painted Stork, moorhen, Small Pratincole, river terns, aquatic insects, Pied kingfisher and Stilts.

Some major local migratory and residential birds are spotwill, Sarus crane, painted stork, peacock, white ibis, dabchick, whistling teal, open-bill stork, white-necked stork, pheasant-tailed jacana, bronze winged jacana, purple moorhen, lapwing, tern vulture, pigeon, king crow, Indian roller and bee eater.

The Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus.