Bronze Winged Jacana
Actually it's a wader, usually found near lakes and ponds, walking on the vegetation grown on water bodies. Feeds on insects and small fishes. Not a colonial dweller. Builds it's nest on the vegetation of waterbodies. Usually nurtures it's babies carrying them under its wings. Sometimes it's so confusing that it appears like the bird has many legs.
''Parra aenea'' Cuvier
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The bronze-winged jacana is a wader in the family Jacanidae. It is found across South and Southeast Asia and is the sole species in the genus ''Metopidius''. Like other jacanas it forages on lilies and other floating aquatic vegetation, the long feet spreading out its weight and preventing sinking. The sexes are alike but females are slightly larger and are polyandrous, maintaining a harem of males during the breeding season in the monsoon rains. Males maintain.. more
