Pheasant-tailed Jacana

The pheasant-tailed jacana is conspicuous and unmistakable, and with its tail streamers it is the longest member of the jacana family. In breeding plumage the body is chocolate brown and the face white, and a black stripe down the side of the neck separates the white foreneck from a silky golden-yellow nape; the wings are mostly white with a black border, and the long central tail feathers give the bird its name. Outside the breeding season it is browner above with a dark necklace and only a trace of the golden nape (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its very long toes and nails let it walk over floating plants on shallow lakes, and it also swims or wades while foraging, mainly for invertebrates. It is the only jacana that migrates long distances and has separate breeding and non-breeding plumages, though many populations are sedentary. Females are larger than males and polyandrous, laying several clutches that are raised by different males (Wikipedia, general species account).