Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa), Canoa Ranch Conservation Park, Pima County

This Northern Jacana was photographed by Craig Thayer on 09 September 2020.

A juvenile Northern Jacana was discovered on a private golf course in Green Valley on 8 September 2020 by Rob Rutledge, and presumably the same individual moved to Canoa Ranch, and was re-discovered there on the morning of 9 September. It remained there for three days through the 11th, and was seen by many birders!

This will represent a 6th Arizona record, and the second of a juvenile-plumaged bird (the October 2008 Patagonia Lake bird was also a juvenile). The last Jacana to be found in Arizona was an adult bird at Dave White Golf Course in Casa Grande, 1 November 2007-9 April 2008

09 September 2020, photo by Craig Thayer

09 September 2020, photo by Patricia Isaacson

10 September 2020, photo by Bryan Patrick

09 September 2020, photo by Gary Rosenberg

09 September 2020, photo by Pat Goltz

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