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Pheasant-tailed Jacana

(Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

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13.1116, 80.1562

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Description:

shot this bird in the dying marshes of Chennai called pallikaranai marsh the bird Has long-tailed breeding plumage and short-tailed non-breeding plumage. Does walk on plants but also swim in open water

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