Jacanas
Bronze-winged Jacana
Metopidius indicus
The bronze-winged jacana (Metopidius indicus) is a wader in the family Jacanidae. It is the only member of the genus Metopidius. It has huge feet and claws which enables it to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes that are its preferred habitat.
- Family
- Jacanas
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 155 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 8
Photo: Tareq Uddin Ahmed from chittagon, Bangladesh, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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