Species profile
Bronze-winged Jacana
Metopidius indicus
Quick answer
Lowlands of India to sw China, SE Asia, Sumatra and Java
- Scientific name
- Metopidius indicus
- Family
- Jacanidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Metopidius
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Jacanidae
- African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus)
- Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea)
- Jacana farrandi (Jacana farrandi)
- Janipes nymphaeobates (Janipes nymphaeobates)
- Lesser Jacana (Microparra capensis)
- Madagascar Jacana (Actophilornis albinucha)
- Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa)
- Northern x Wattled Jacana (hybrid) (Jacana spinosa x jacana)