Species profile
Northern Jacana
Jacana spinosa
Quick answer
Breeding regions are MA. Breeding subregions are inland s Sinaloa and c Tamaulipas (n Mexico; rarely s Texas, where formerly bred) to w Panama and including Cozumel (Mexico); and Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola.
- Scientific name
- Jacana spinosa
- Family
- Jacanidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Jacana
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Northern Jacana in your journal
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Related species in Jacanidae
- African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus)
- Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus)
- Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea)
- Jacana farrandi (Jacana farrandi)
- Janipes nymphaeobates (Janipes nymphaeobates)
- Lesser Jacana (Microparra capensis)
- Madagascar Jacana (Actophilornis albinucha)
- Northern x Wattled Jacana (hybrid) (Jacana spinosa x jacana)