Northern Jacana
Jacana spinosa
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Jacanidae
- Genus
- Jacana
- eBird Code
- norjac
Distribution
inland southern Sinaloa and central Tamaulipas (northwestern and northeastern Mexico); rarely southern Texas (where formerly bred) to western Panama, and including Cozumel (just off Yucatan Peninsula); and Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola
Vocalizations
Dan MacNeal · CC_BY_4_0
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.