The Wattled Jacana lays four black-marked brown eggs in a floating nest.

The Wattled Jacana's food is insects, other invertebrates and seeds picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.

The dark colors are somewhat darker on the juvenile Wattled Jacana than on the Northern.

The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

Jacana is the genus comprising the two jacanas of the Americas: the Northern Jacana, Jacana spinosa, and the Wattled Jacana, Jacana jacana.

The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) is a wader which is a resident breeder from western Panama and Trinidad south through most of South America east of the Andes.

Birds recorded from the reserve include the Fulvous Whistling Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Osprey, Wattled Jacana, Black-necked Stilt, Cocoi Heron, Striated Heron, Anhinga and Neotropic Cormorant.

Yet in spite of these findings, many biologists, especially male biologists, held out hope that some males might be immune to this kind of treatment by their mates - particularly the exemplary, hard-working fathers, as in the bird species known as the wattled jacana (pronounced JAC-uh-nuh).

The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

Jacana is the genus comprising the two jacanas of the Americas: the Northern Jacana, Jacana spinosa, and the Wattled Jacana, Jacana jacana.

The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) is a wader which is a resident breeder from western Panama and Trinidad south through most of South America east of the Andes.