Neil Aldridge / Two adult African jacanas (Actophilornis africanus) flying over reedbeds, Selinda Spillway, northern Botswana.

Wim van den Heever / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) male holding his youngsters safely under his wings whilst walking. Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Wim van den Heever / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) male holding his youngsters safely under his wings whilst walking. Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Dong Lei / Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China.

Ben Cranke / Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) perched on resting Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil. July.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) male in breeding plumage, in flight. Oman, July.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) male in breeding plumage, wading in water. Oman, July.

Tony Heald / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking of Lily pads. Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Rick Price / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) standing in water amongst vegetation. Ord River, The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Steven David Miller / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) male and four eggs. The male incubates the eggs. Corroboree Billabong, Mary River, Northern Territory, Australia.

Staffan Widstrand / African jacana, (Actophilornis africanus) walking, Zimanga Private Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

John Shaw / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana), with chicks tucked under adult's feathers. Note the number of legs showing. Pantanal, Brazil. July.

Bernard Castelein / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) walking on mud, Pampas del Yacuma Protected Area, Bolivia

Ann & Steve Toon / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus), Zimanga private game reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, September

Bernard Castelein / African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus), Gambia.

Bernard Castelein / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus), Gambia.

Bernard Castelein / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus), Gambia.

Guy Edwardes / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) on lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana.

Sean Viljoen / Slow motion clip of an African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking on floating vegetation, Botswana.

Sylvain Cordier / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) juvenile, Sandoval Lake, Peru

Sylvain Cordier / Comb crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea), walking over waterlily pads, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia

Jen Guyton / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) wading in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Eric Baccega / African Jacana (Actophilornis africana) searching for food on water. Swamps of Mabamba, lake Victoria, Uganda.

Eric Baccega / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) walking, Akagera National Park, Rwanda, Africa

Roger Powell / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) walking over lotus lily-pads. Fogg Dam, Northern Territory, Australia

Juergen Freund / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) Queensland, Australia.

Wim van den Heever / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) in flight, Chobe river, Botswana.

Wim van den Heever / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) juvenile walking on water lillies, Chobe river, Botswana.

Tony Heald / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) stalking in water, Pantanal, Brazil

Tony Heald / Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) flying over Giant Waterlily (Victoria amazonica) Pantanal, Brazil

Hermann Brehm / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) stretching wing, Pantanal, Brazil.

Gabriel Rojo / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) Ibera Marshes, Corrientes Province, Argentina

Gabriel Rojo / Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) Ibera Marshes, Corrientes Province, Argentina

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) walking on vegetation, Oman, May.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) in vegetation on the water, Oman, November.

Pete Oxford / Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) with Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) on back. Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Ben Cranke / Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana), Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa) on Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil. July.

Ben Cranke / Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil. August.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) Uganda.

Ashish & Shanthi Chandola / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus), Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

Ashish & Shanthi Chandola / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus), Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

Ashish & Shanthi Chandola / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus), Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) landing, Oman, February

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) Oman, February

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) carrying chicks under wing, Chobe River, Botswana, March.

David Tipling / 19th century stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Chapel on Inner Farne Island, Northumberland depicting the Pelican-in-her-piety. The Pelican-in-her-Piety is an allegorical depiction of Jesus Chris...

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chick running between water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) in flight, Chobe River, Botswana, June.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) foraging for insects in flower, Chobe River, Botswana, November.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) feeding on water lily bud, Chobe River, Botswana, November.

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile African jacana (Actophilornis africana) foraging for insects in water lily flower, Chobe River, Botswana, May.

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile Africana jacana (Actophilornis africana) walking over water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, May.

Lou Coetzer / Sub adult African jacana (Actophilornis africana) running, Chobe River, Botswana, November.

Lou Coetzer / Female African jacana (Actophilornis africana) attacking male, Chobe River, Botswana, October.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) with chick on water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, March.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) with chick on water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, March.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) and chick on Water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, March.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chick running across water surface between water lily pads, Chobe River, Botswana, May.

Lou Coetzer / Female African jacana (Actophilornis africana) pulling water lily flower bud, Chobe River, Botswana, September.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chick running on water, Chobe River, Botswana, May.

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile African jacana (Actophilornis africana) looking at insect on flower, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chick, one day, standing on leaf, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking carrying chicks under wing, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) running with chick legs hanging out from under wing, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chick standing on one leg on leaf, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Lou Coetzer / African jacana (Actophilornis africana) with large chick, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) rescuing chick from water, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Male African jacana (Actophilornis africana) walking with chick falling from under wing, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Four African jacana (Actophilornis africana) chicks legs dangling from under male's wing, Chobe River, Botswana.

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking off large leaf into water, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Kim Taylor / Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) displaying, showing wing spurs, Costa Rica

Kim Taylor / Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) displaying, showing wing spurs, Costa Rica

Denis-Huot / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking on Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking on Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking on Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking on Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Ernie Janes / Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) walking in swamp, Yala NP, Sri Lanka

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ruiz / Statue of Jesus surrounded by model Storks and Herons, Hrensko, Ceske Svycarsko / Bohemian Switzerland National Park, Czech Republic, November 2008

Maxime Aliaga / Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) standing in water among wetland vegetation with Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) perched on its back, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Etienne Littlefair / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) taking flight from water, Corroboree billabong, Northern Territory, Australia.

Etienne Littlefair / RF - Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) feeding amongst Lilypads, Corroboree billabong, Northern Territory, Australia. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Etienne Littlefair / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) walking on Lilypads, Corroboree billabong, Northern Territory, Australia.

Ripan Biswas / A bag confiscated from a poacher containing dead birds including Red-headed swamp hen (Porphyrio sp.), Bronze-winged jacana (Metopidius indicus), Cotton pygmy goose (Nettapus coromandelianus), Eurasia...

Wim van den Heever / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) running across pool with lily pads with wings sread, Chobe River, Botswana.

Loic Poidevin / African jacana (Actophilornis africanus) walking between lily pads. Uganda.

Roland Seitre / Wattled jacanas (Jacana jacana) pair exhibiting mating behaviour in wetland, Pantanal, Brazil.

Roland Seitre / Madagascar jacana (Actophilornis albinucha) wading in shallow water, Madagascar.

Roland Seitre / Madagascar jacana (Actophilornis albinucha) foraging at water's edge, Madagascar.

Roland Seitre / Two Madagascar jacanas (Actophilornis albinucha) foraging in wetland, Madagascar.

Roland Seitre / Madagascar jacana (Actophilornis albinucha) foraging at water's edge, Madagascar.

Tim Laman / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) feeding among Giant water lilies (Nymphaea gigantea) in billabong, Lotusbird Lodge, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Australia.

Bernard Castelein / Flock of White-faced whistling duck (Actophilornis africanus) in flight, Allahein River, The Gambia.

Bruce Thomson / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) feeding on a patch of water lilies, Kununurra, Western Australia.

Bruce Thomson / Lotus bird / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) standing on water lilly (Nymphaeaceae) leaf in pool, Ingham, Queensland, Australia.

Etienne Littlefair / Comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea), Marrakai, Northern Territory, Australia, September.

Rod Williams / Kite-tailed robberfly (Machimus atricapillus) Hutchinson's Bank, New Addington, London, England, UK. August.

Rod Williams / Kite-tailed robberfly (Machimus atricapillus) with prey, Denbies Hillside, near Dorking, Surrey, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Kite tailed robberfly (Machimus atricapillus) resting on limestone boulder, Wiltshire, UK, August.

Premaphotos / Kite-tailed robber fly (Machimus atricapillus) mating pair, UK

Andy Sands / Pair of Kite-tailed robberfly (Machimus atricapillus) mating on Marram grass (Ammophila sp) in sand dunes. Cornwall, England, UK. July.

Andy Sands / Kite-tailed robberflies (Machimus atricapillus) mating pair on Marram grass in sand dunes, Cornwall, England, UK, August

Nick Upton / Kite-tailed robberfly (Machimus atricapillus) standing on grass blades on the look-out for aerial insect prey, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.