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Tropical bird, also called lily trotter
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jacana
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Jacana is the genus comprising the two jacanas of the Americas: the northern jacana , Jacana spinosa , and the wattled jacana , Jacana jacana . These birds are very similar to each other: about long, with long necks and fairly long yellow bills. Adults ...
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n. A group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws and found throughout the world.
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Jacana \Jac"a*na`\, n. [Cf. Sp. jacania.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, ...
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Hudson gives in his master-work on La Plata the most interesting description, which must be read in the original, of complicated dances, performed by quite a number of birds: rails, jacanas, lapwings, and so on.
Ahead of them the cormorants beat the water with their wings in their frenzied efforts to launch into flight, while the chocolate and white jacanas scurried across the lily pads and the sinister log-like shapes of the crocodiles slid down the bank into deep water.
The best known of these female sultans are the shore birds called jacanas (alias lily-trotters), Spotted Sandpipers, and Wilson's Phalaropes.
Only among a minority of species, such as the tropical jacanas and southerly populations of Spotted Sandpipers, is polyandry frequent or routine.