Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus)

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.

Family
Jacanidae (Jacanas)

Size
26.50 - 30.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1790)

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

India through south-eastern Asia to southern Sumatra and western Java.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus) [XC862049]
by Mandar Bhagat from Wat Chalo, Bang Kruai District, Nonthaburi, Thailand (call)

Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus) [XC400761]
by Somkiat Pakapinyo (Chai) from Tambon Khlong Khoi, Amphoe Pak Kret, Chang Wat Nonthaburi, Thailand (song)

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.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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