Species profile
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Quick answer
Swamps and marshes of India, SE Asia and Philippine Islands
- Scientific name
- Hydrophasianus chirurgus
- Family
- Jacanidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Hydrophasianus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Pheasant-tailed 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 Jacana (Jacana spinosa)