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Jacana

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ja·ça·na  (zhäs-nä) also ja·ca·na (-k-)
n.
Any of several tropical water birds of the family Jacanidae, having long toes adapted for walking on floating vegetation. Also called lily-trotter.

[Portuguese jaçanã, from Tupi jaçanam, jaçanã, one that cries out.]


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Johannesburg: Cape Town: Jacana, & Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
Other local birds are the Sarus, Peacock, White Ibis, Bronze Winged Jacana, Tern Vulture, King Crow, Bee Eater and many more.
Published in North and South America and the Pacific Rim by Ohio University Press, and in the rest of the world by Jacana Media with the ISBN 978-1-7700-9546-5.
 
 
 
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