Northern Jacana
Liz Bonnin presents the northern jacana at home in Central American wetlands.
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Liz Bonnin presents the northern jacana at home in Central American wetlands. A cross between a coot and a plover, northern Jacanas are found in swamps in Central America and Mexico. They're long legged birds with a black head and neck, and a chestnut body with yellow highlights. And, northern jacanas are polyandrous; the females have more than one partner. Males build platforms of floating vegetation and attract females by calling or posturing. If a female mates with a male, he may use his platform as a nest for her eggs. The female doesn't care for the eggs, but goes in search of up to three other mates. The result is that a single female may have several males raising different clutches of eggs for her and each clutch may contain the eggs of more than one male!
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Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa)
Webpage image courtesy of Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com.
漏 Claudio Contreras / naturepl.com
Recording of Northern Jacana by Gerrit Vyn / Ref: ML140224
This programme contains a kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; recorded by Gerrit Vyn on 2 Oct 2006, in Veracruz, Mexico.
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