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Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Hydrophasianus chirurgus · Family Jacanidae
Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Family Jacanidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Jacanidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 143,111
- Countries and territories with records
- 32
About this species
This species has 143,111 occurrence records from 32 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (60.7%), Taiwan (17.6%), Sri Lanka (7%), Thailand (5.9%) and Cambodia (1.7%); together they account for 93% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hydrophasianus chirurgus combines the genus name Hydrophasianus with the species epithet chirurgus. It is the only species of the genus Hydrophasianus in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Jacanidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Jacana jacana. Its record count is close to the family average (141,258). The family Jacanidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.