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Definition of surgeon bird

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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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. During the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, there were...
- 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...
- family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type...
- him up. John consoles himself that Elsie's death will help make a good surgeon and invites the new match wench to his house, though he upsets her when...
- 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...
- is a nocturnal bird belonging to the pratincole and courser family Glareolidae endemic to India. The bird was discovered by the surgeon-naturalist Thomas...
- individual bird plumage was white, blue, or mixed blue-and-white. In 1790, the white swamphen was scientifically described by the surgeon John White in...