Medium. Large feet. Sexes alike but female is larger.
Adults: Head, neck, underparts, black, with a green gloss. Lower hindneck has a vivid purple to green gloss. Supercilium, broad and white. Ye, brown. Mantle, scapulars, wing coverts, chestnut-maroon. Back to uppertail and vent, chestnut-maroon. Bill, green with a red base and yellow tip. Legs, dull green.
Juveniles: Crown, nape, loral eyestripe, dull chestnut. Supercilium, short and white. Sides of neck, lower foreneck, upper breast, deep rufous-buff. Rest of underparts white with dark-barred thighs. Uppertail coverts, barred blackish and pale chestnut. Tail, black and white with buff and/or bronze-green tinge. Bill, yellowish. Legs, dull green.
Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus) [XC488675]
by Sam Hambly from ICRISAT, Telangana, India (call)
Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus) [XC698143]
by Romtum_P from eBird hotspot: Bang Khaem Fish Ponds, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand (alarm call, call)
Nest
A floating pad of vegatation with a slight depression (sometimes none).
Eggs (Guide)
Clutch Size: 4
Color: very glossy, buff to deep red-brown with numerous long black lines and intricate scrawls
Dimensions: 36 x 25 mm
Subspecies
Genus occasionally considered to include Microparra, Actophilornis and Irediparra, or alternatively lumped with Actophilornis and Irediparra in Jacana, but neither proposal widely accepted.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet