Bronze winged JacanaScienticfic Name - Metopidius indicus
Assamese Local Name - Description: The jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat. They are found worldwide within the tropical zone.The bronze-winged jacana breeds in India and southeast Asia. It is sedentary apart from seasonal dispersion. It lays four black-marked brown eggs in a floating nest. The bronze-winged jacana's feeds on insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface. |
Pheasant-tailed jacanaScienticfic Name - Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Assamese Local Name - Description: The Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat.The pheasant-tailed jacana breeds in India, southeast Asia, and Indonesia. It is sedentary in much of its range, but northern breeders from south China and the Himalayas migrate into peninsular India and southeast Asia.These jacanas breed on floating vegetation from March to July. In southern India, it breeds in the monsoon season, June–September. |
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