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surgeon bird
Jacana Jac"a*na`, n. [Cf. Sp. jacania.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. Note: The most common South American species is Jacana spinosa. The East Indian or pheasant jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is remarkable for having four very long, curved, middle tail feathers.

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- Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (7 July 1848–16 March 1939) was an English surgeon at Guy's Hospital, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and lecturer to medical...
- Golding-Bird may refer to: Golding Bird (1814–1854), British medical doctor Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939), British surgeon and son of Golding Bird...
- Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939), became a notable surgeon. Another son, Percival Golding-Bird, became a priest in Rotherhithe. Bird was a Fellow of the...
- Philip G; Kappagoda, Tissa (2010). The cry of the "devil-bird" : incidents in the life of a surgeon, working in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, from 1965 to 2000 / Philip...
- Margaret Anne Bulkley, or Bulkeley; c. 1789 – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry...
- family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type...
- John White (c. 1756 – 20 February 1832) was an Irish surgeon and botanical collector. White was born in the townland of Drumaran, near Belcoo, in County...
- when her medical school became part of McGill. During World War I, Bird was house surgeon at the private Egginton Hall Hospital in England, established by...
- Colorado named in their honor. At home, Bird again found herself pursued, this time by Dr John Bishop, an Edinburgh surgeon in his thirties. She got interested...
- the muni****lity Calayan rail, a bird endemic to the Philippines Manny Calayan, celebrity Filipino cosmetic surgeon This disambiguation page lists articles...