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Wattled jacana

Jacana jacana · Family Jacanidae

Jacana jacana

Family Jacanidae

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Jacanidae
GBIF occurrence records
325,670
Countries and territories with records
31
Wattled jacana
Geoff Gallice from Gainesville · Acana jacana -near Yarina Lodge, Napo Province, Ecuador -adult-8 cropped.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Geoff Gallice from Gainesville · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 325,670 occurrence records from 31 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (27.7%), Colombia (19.4%), Argentina (18.2%), Panama (10.5%) and Peru (4.7%); together they account for 80.5% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.38% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Jacana jacana combines the genus name Jacana with the species epithet jacana. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Jacana: Jacana spinosa.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Jacanidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (141,258). The family Jacanidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Jacanidae

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