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African Jacana
The African Jacana (Actophilornis africana), is a bird in a group of waders in the family Charadriidae. Their preferred habitat is floating vegetation in shallow lakes. They are found throughout the world in tropical zones.
These are conspicuous and unmistakable birds. They are 12 inches long, but the females are larger than the males. They have chestnut upperparts with black wingtips, rear neck and eye-stripe. The underparts are white, with a chestnut belly patch in adult birds. The blue bill extends up as a coot-like head shield, and the legs and very long toes are grey.
It is sedentary apart from seasonal dispersion. It lays four black-marked brown eggs in a floating nest. The males, as in some other wader families like the phalaropes, take responsibility for incubation. The African Jacana's food is insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water’s surface.
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