Northern jacana Jacana spinosa

Identification Tips:

• Length: 7 inches
• Large shorebird
• Fairly short, yellow bill and frontal shield
• Long toes
• Pale green flight feathers
• Rare in south Texas

Adult

• Dark plumage, darkest on head

Juvenile

• White underparts
• White supercilium

Similar species:

None

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.