Species factsheet

Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

Order: Jacana jacana
Family: Jacanas (Jacanidae)

Danish name: Jacana

Voices can be found here (External link)

Subspecies and Distribution

hypomelaena

wc Panama to n Colombia

melanopygia

w Colombia to w Venezuela

intermedia

n and c Venezuela

jacana

Trinidad, s Colombia and s Venezuela through the Guianas south to e Bolivia, n Argentina and Uruguay

scapularis

w Ecuador, nw Peru

peruviana

ne Peru, nw Brazil

Photos

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