PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA

 

Photographed just south of Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 1087)                 PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA               Hydrophasianus chirurgus     

CAMBODIA                47

Found on marshes, lakes and tanks with floating vegetation. 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 have different non-breeding and breeding plumages.