The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus.
Like all other jacanas they have elongated toes and nails that enable
them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred
habitat. They may also swim or wade in water reaching their body while
foraging mainly for invertebrate prey. They are found in tropical Asia
from Yemen in the west to the Philippines in the east and move
seasonally in parts of their range. They are the only jacanas that
migrate long distances and with different non-breeding and breeding
plumages. The pheasant-tailed jacana forages by swimming or by walking
on aquatic vegetation. Females are larger than the males and are
polyandrous, laying several clutches that are raised by different males
in their harem.
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