Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanus
- langka
- 48 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Walks on floating lily pads via absurdly long toes. Fathers carry chicks under their wings with just legs dangling out.
- Populasi
- Large and stable, with roughly 1,000,000+ individuals globally and ~667,000 mature individuals; stable trend over ~15.6 years, across 40 sub-Saharan African countries.
- Habitat
- Shallow permanent or seasonally flooded freshwater wetlands with floating vegetation (especially water-lilies) — marshes, lakes, dams, swamps, and backwaters of slow-flowing rivers with emergent plants, generally below 2,000 m elevation.
- Fakta menarik
- The African Jacana has a reversed (polyandrous) breeding system in which one female mates with several males, and each male alone incubates the eggs and raises the chicks — even tucking them underneath his wings to carry them to safety.
- Sebaran
- Widespread across sub-Saharan Africa (Afrotropic realm), from Senegal in the west to South Africa in the south and east across the continent, roughly 17-24 million km² extent of occurrence across ~40 countries; largely sedentary/resident but shows local nomadic movements of several kilometers between wetlands as water levels fluctuate seasonally.
- Makanan
- Carnivorous: aquatic and terrestrial insects and their larvae, worms, spiders, crustaceans, and molluscs/snails picked from floating vegetation and the water surface, occasionally supplemented with seeds.
- Ukuran
- 0,27 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
