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Übersetzung für 'jaçanas' von Englisch nach Deutsch

jaçanas [family Jacanidae]

Jacanas {pl}orn.T

Blatthühnchen {pl}orn.T

• Jacanas {pl} = jaçanas [family Jacanidae]
• Jacanas {pl} = Jesus birds [family Jacanidae]
• Jacanas {pl} = lily trotters [family Jacanidae]

• The jacanas are a group of tropical waders. They are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.
• Vocalizations among jacanas usually occur between mating pairs or between fathers and their young. Jacanas will emit "clustered-note calls", which are made of individual notes clustered together, when jacanas attack intruders in their territories. Jacanas also made calls when eggs or chicks are under threat by predators. The notes and their pattern depend on the urgency of the threat. Calls are also made on flight, when a female is away from the territory too long or if a male cannot find a chick.
• The Jacana Ecological Education Park (...) is a birdwatching park in Guantian District, Tainan, Taiwan, featuring pheasant-tailed jacanas.
• Their diet consists mainly of insects and other invertebrates picked from floating vegetation or the water's surface but plant seeds may also be eaten. Wattled jacanas are known to pick ticks off capybaras. The stomach contents of jacanas have been found to include algae, as well as plant roots and stems, but it is thought that this may be incidentally ingested along with their invertebrate prey.
• Multiple mating is also seen in wattled jacanas where females have a group of males close by for mating. Copulations are easily seen in jacanas, facilitating the observation of females copulating continuously with various males. and allowing the most viable sperm to fertilize most of the clutch or to increase genetic diversity for benefits in disease resistance.