Here is a juvenile from Trinidad. Jacanas comprise a small family of delicately proportioned marsh birds found throughout warmer parts of the world. All have extraordinarily long toes and nails that enable them to walk over floating vegetation with ease. They eat small aquatic plant and animal lfe. The New World species are polyandrous breeders. The female lays four black-marked brown eggs in a floating nest. The male, as with other jacanas and some other wader families like the phalaropes, takes responsibility for incubation, with two eggs held between each wing and the breast. The females will help to defend the nests of up to four mates. f/7.1, iso 400, exp comp plus one-third, 1/500.