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Aquatic bird
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jacana
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Jaçanã is a district of the city of São Paulo , Brazil . It constitutes with Tremembé the subprefecture Jaçanã-Tremembé , marking the northern boundaries of the city. Like Parelheiros , most of the area of this borough is rural, although in the southern ...
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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.
Usage examples of jacana.
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.