#wattled jacana

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Some San Diego Zoo babies from early April 2023.

7-week old Amur leopard.

~4 month old Andean bear with mom

4 day old wattled jacana.

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A wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago

by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith

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Capypril day 16 - friend

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Battle Royale

Pool Party! (E-3)

These birds are loosely grouped by their associations with water, and because I didn't want the family BR to get too big. Keep your eyes peeled- there may be someone here who got a little lost, but we don't discriminate here!

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Wattled Jacana

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Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

© Luis Roberto da Silva

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check out this bird who can't loaf bc his legs 2 dam big

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wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) by Wilson Lucheti

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THE FULL FUCKED UP BIRD BRACKET

All birds have been randomized, the seeds mean nothing. Yes pitohui is spelled incorrectly in the bracket image.

GROUP A

Andean Condor VS Loggerhead Shrike

Superb Lyrebird VS Emu

Greater Sage-Grouse VS Common Ostrich

Yellow-Billed Oxpecker VS American Woodcock

Bare-Throated Bellbird VS Giant Petrel

Greater Sooty Owl VS Vampire Ground Finch

Great Eared Nightjar VS Spur-Winged Goose

Common Cuckoo VS Tawny Frogmouth

GROUP B

Great Potoo VS Killdeer

Domestic Chicken VS Oilbird

Tufted Puffin VS Dalmatian Pelican

King Vulture VS Twelve-Wired Bird Of Paradise

Greater Superb Bird Of Paradise VS Perrito

Barn Owl VS Purple Gallinule

Bearded Vulture VS Secretary Bird

Long Wattled Umbrellabird VS Horned Screamer

GROUP C

Oriental Bay Owl VS Anhinga

Pennant Winged Nightjar VS Snowy Sheathbill

Red-Legged Seriema VS Marabou Stork

Argentavis VS Common Loon

Black Skimmer VS Luzon Bleeding-Heart

Southern Cassowary VS Flamingo (all species)

Green Heron VS Great Hornbill

African Jacana VS California Condor

GROUP D

Hamerkop VS Capuchinbird

Shoebill Stork VS American White Pelican

Roseate Spoonbill VS Hoatzin

Terror Bird VS Elephant Bird

Great Egret VS Magnificent Frigatebird

Guinean Cock-Of-The-Rock VS Hooded Pitohui

White-Throated Rail VS Spur-Winged Plover

White Bellbird VS Kiwi

Polls will be tagged with their BRACKET (example: #bracket a) and #tournament poll

MAY THE WORST BIRD WIN

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Jaçanã/Wattled Jacana 

Jacana jacana

[pleistocene-pride]

The northern jacana, also known as the American jacana and the Jesus Bird, is a species of wading bird in the family Jacanidae which in native throughout Panama, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. They are famous for their huge feet and claws, which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes, swamps, marshes, and ponds that are their preferred habitat. Here they feed upon insects, snails, worms, crustaceans, fish, mollusks, and seeds. Jacana are themselves preyed upon by snakes, crocodilians, snapping turtles, and various large birds mammals. Both sexes of northern jacana average around 8 inches (240mm) in length with a 20 inch (508mm) wingspan, however females are nearly twice as heavy at 5- 6oz (140- 170g) in weight compared to males at 3-4oz (85- 113g). The northern jacana has a dark brown body with a black head and neck. Its bill has a white base with yellow patches and its forehead has a yellow wattle. The legs and feet are a greenish grey. When a jacana is in flight, its yellowish-green primary and secondary feathers are visible. Also visible are yellow bony spurs on the leading edge of the wings, which it can use to defend itself and its young.  Particularly unusual among birds, this species sports a polyandrous society in which female jacana maintain harems of males. Said females compete with each other through elaborate calls, displays, and acts of physical, often aerial, aggression. The winner of these fights gets to maintain a territory where she will pair bond and mate 1-4 males. Breeding occurs in the rainy season during which time males construct floating nests out of whatever plant matter they can find. Where the female will lays a clutch of four brown eggs with black markings. Which are then incubated by the males for 28 days. After hatching they are cared for by all parents, fledge at around 8 weeks of age and become fully independent after a year.

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Wattled jacana father with 3 4-day old chicks underwing.

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20th Mumbai Bird Race 2024 (HSBC India BirdRaces)

Sunday Feb 18, 2024 from 7:38 am to 6 pm, traveling 13.87 km for 626 minutes. Places birdwatched at: Lokhandwala lake > Lokhandwala nalla > Malad InOrbit Creek Road > IIT Powai lake & campus. Morning was cool and then very hot. We retired home for lunch and then resumed again. Lunch break was from 12 o'clock noon to 3:30 pm.

Number of bird species seen/ heard: 56.

25 Lesser Whistling-Duck 1 Gadwall 50 Indian Spot-billed Duck 2 Green-winged Teal 10 Greater Flamingo 5 Lesser Flamingo 1 Little Grebe 1 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2 Greater Coucal 2 Asian Palm Swift 5 Eurasian Moorhen 5 Eurasian Coot 9 Gray-headed Swamphen 2 White-breasted Waterhen -- Seen 3 Black-winged Stilt 1 Red-wattled Lapwing 3 Bronze-winged Jacana 1 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Common Sandpiper 4 Wood Sandpiper 1 Common Redshank 1 Black-headed Gull 1 Brown-headed Gull 1 Common Tern 1 Little Cormorant 1 Little Egret 1 Indian Pond-Heron 1 Great Egret 1 Medium Egret 1 Purple Heron 1 Glossy Ibis 1 Black-headed Ibis 1 Western Marsh Harrier 5 Black Kite 1 White-throated Kingfisher 5 Asian Green Bee-eater 1 Coppersmith Barbet -- Heard 2 Brown-headed Barbet 2 Rose-ringed Parakeet 1 Spot-breasted Fantail 1 Black Drongo 1 Ashy Drongo 1 Long-tailed Shrike 100 House Crow 2 Large-billed Crow 1 Common Tailorbird -- Heard 2 Ashy Prinia 1 Booted Warbler -- Heard 1 Blyth's Reed Warbler 2 Red-vented Bulbul 2 Jungle Babbler 5 Rosy Starling 5 Common Myna 1 Oriental Magpie-Robin 1 Purple-rumped Sunbird 25 House Sparrow

Sunrise.

Lokhandwala lake

IIT Powai Campus

Here are few photos from the bird race clicked by my good friend, JN.

How did I capture a TIME LAPSE of the Sunset at Powai Lake?

There was a small mound of mud over which a branch of tree had fallen. I balanced my mobile properly for the entire duration of the setting sequence. My friend's son, SSN and other people walking in front of the mobile were politely asked to walk carefully from behind the mobile and over the branch. They complied and even thanked me for offering them the unnecessary hand over the small branch, on which I had balanced my mobile really well. All went well and then when I went to show my group, the result of my endevour, I realised I had not pressed the start button to click the mobile camera. Our hosts, the organizers of the India Bird Races, Mr. Ravi & Mr. Sunjoy as usual were gracious and kind and conducted bird quizzes with panache, that kept everyone on the edge to win prizes and gain knowledge.

You can check the earlier editions of the India Bird Races below:

2023 Mumbai Bird Race - 53 species seen.

2022 Mumbai Bird Race - 50 species seen.

2019 Mumbai Bird Race - 63 species seen.

2015 Mumbai Bird Race - 90 species seen.

The pan flavoured chocolate in this gift box was something new. I look forward to many more bird races and abundance of birds in and around Mumbai.

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hand over the zoo photos 🤲

yes yes!

here is a papa wattled jacana and his chicks, who are all less than a week old!!

south american coatis!!! a few of them actually got into a scrap when i walked past and a keeper had to shoo them away so they wouldn't continue fighting over food

baby orangutan!!

the tasmanian devils were out today and this guy was fighting a bush

the head and back half of a chinese giant salamander (the biggest amphibian in the world!)

and a west african lungfish!

i also have a bunch of bug pics but i'll throw those in another post

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February 1, 2019 - Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

Found in parts of southern Central America and much of eastern and central South America, these jacanas live in freshwater wetlands with floating vegetation. They feed mostly on insects and other invertebrates, as well as small vertebrates, including fish and amphibians. A polyandrous species, females are larger than males and will breed with and defend up to four mates. Males build the nests on floating plants, where they incubate the eggs and care for the chicks.

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The last of my round 1 March Mammal Madness stuff! These were for the Tag Team Division! Twice the animals!

On to Sweet 16!

Featuring: Fork-tailed Drongo and Sociable Weaverbird, Diana Monkey and Red Colobus, Hardwicke’s Wooly Bat and Elongated Pitcher Plant, Warthog and Banded Mongoose, Wattled Jacana and Capybara, Loggerhead Turtle and Columbus Crab.