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Bronze-winged Jacana

Metopidius indicus · Family Jacanidae

Metopidius indicus

Family Jacanidae

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Jacanidae
GBIF occurrence records
178,271
Countries and territories with records
14
Bronze-winged Jacana
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About this species

This species has 178,271 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (87.3%), Thailand (7.4%), Nepal (1.7%), Cambodia (1.3%) and Bangladesh (1.2%); together they account for 98.9% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Metopidius indicus combines the genus name Metopidius with the species epithet indicus. It is the only species of the genus Metopidius in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Jacanidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Jacana jacana. Its record count is 1.3 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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