The Bronze-Winged Jacana is found throughout most of India - it is absent from the North-western parts of the country and the high Himalayas. It can also be found in East of India through Bangladesh, and south-east Asia as far south as southern Thailand.
The adult birds have a striking eye stripe, which actually makes then easy to pick out at distance, and one you 'get your eye in' they can be relatively common in the right sort of watery habitats. I don't know if it was because of the time of year I was in India (March/April), but I saw far more juvenile individuals than adults.
Like the other Lilly Trotters this is a very active bird that spends good deal of time rushing about on Lillies!
In the making of this post I discovered (for myself, not the world!!) that female Jacanas have an interesting mating strategy.
Female Bronze-Winged Jacanas, like other female jacanas, are larger than males, territorial, polyandrous (a female that has more than one male mate), and compete with other females to maintain harems of males which incubate clutches of eggs. Each female's territory covers one to four males and their individual territories, and the males compete with each other to mate with the female. Apparently, the loud calling of the males - termed 'yelling' in some descriptions - is used by the female for mate selection. Again apparently, the louder the yell, the fitter the male!
As ever, to join in with WBW click on the link below. Cheers SM
Spotting them is always a treat, even as common as they are here in Bangalore! That female polyandry system is wild.
ReplyDeleteBird harems. Love it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a striking bird!
ReplyDeleteBardzo ciekawy ptak. Bardzo lubię podglądać chruściele. To dość skryte ptaki. Ten jest niezwykły w barwach, kompletnie mi nie znany. Gratuluję spotkania i udanych zdjęć.
ReplyDeleteEin interessanter, hübscher Vogel. Dank deiner Beschreibung und der guten Bilder konnte ich ihn kennenlernen.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, dear Stewart—those toes really are very, very long! It’s kind of funny how anything capable of "walking on water" gets named after Jesus (like the *Basiliscus plumifrons*, which goes by the nickname "Jesus Christ lizard"). By the way, we encountered this lizard in Costa Rica—and in the same blog post where I show this basilisk (https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2023/02/costa-rica-7-kapitel-tortuguero.html), I also feature a bird that looks very similar to "your" Bronze-winged Jacana: a juvenile Northern Jacana (*Jacana spinosa*).
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, there aren't any particularly interesting birds in today's post—just a distant common buzzard and a few mallards...
All the best from Austria 🤗
Traude
https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2026/09/sommerliche-tage-ein-bunter.html
PS: I’ve linked the Costa Rica post here now, even though it’s a bit older. Perhaps other bird lovers will be interested in it, too.
DeleteExcellent serie of this bird. Have a nice day ! Greets
ReplyDeleteFantastic bird. Your photos are superb.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteFun facts at the end there! You got some great shots. YAM xx
A very interesting bird to see and photograph Stewart. Love all the reflections of it in the water. Thanks for hosting and commenting. I hope you have a great week ahead.
ReplyDeleteTruly amazing bird, Great photography. Loved the post.
ReplyDeleteWow, remarkable bird! I wonder if I could walk on water, would men compete for me?
ReplyDeleteIf you could walk on water I suspect a range of business and career opportunities would be available!!! SM
DeleteI have put my Black Redstart photos on YouTube and the link seems to work. Hope this is OK , Cheers Diane
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