Order: Charadriiformes | Family: Jacanidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult and Chick | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Loreto, Peru
Age: Juveniles | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Status: The Wattled Jacana is common on floating vegetation along Amazonian lake edges. Also local in extreme northwest Peru in similar habitats. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Gallito de Agua o Tuqui-Tuqui.
Sub-species: Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana scapularis) Chapman, 1922. Lowlands of W Ecuador and NW Peru.
Jacana jacana peruviana J. T. Zimmer, 1930. NE Peru (lower R Ucayali) and adjacent NW Brazil.
Meaning of Name: Jacana: Tupi (Brazilian)= yassãnã= An alert and noisy bird.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo), The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 7/09/2014.