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title: "Waterfazant"
description: "Hydrophasianus chirurgus — Vogels. The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pheasant-tailed-jacana
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Waterfazant

> Hydrophasianus chirurgus — Vogels. The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus.

- Scientific name: *Hydrophasianus chirurgus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 6103
- Wikidata: [Q18861](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18861)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4589](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4589)

## Names

- en: Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- de: Wasserfasan
- es: Jacana Colilarga
- fr: Jacana à longue queue
- nl: Waterfazant
- pt: Jaçanã-rabo-de-faisão
- pl: Długoszpon chiński

## Countries with the most observations

TW (2257), IN (1776), LK (548), CN (438), TH (337), HK (116), PH (37), BD (35), KR (34), VN (31), KH (29), MY (27)

## Summary

The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Like all other jacanas, they have elongated toes and nails that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. They may also swim or wade in water reaching their body while foraging mainly for invertebrate prey. They are found in tropical Asia from Yemen in the west to the Philippines in the east and move seasonally in parts of their range. They are the only jacanas that migrate long distances and have different non-breeding and breeding plumages. The pheasant-tailed jacana…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant-tailed_jacana

## Photo

![Waterfazant](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pheasant-tailed-jacana/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166047072

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pheasant-tailed-jacana?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).