Riana Augustyn. Pheasant Tailed Jacana. Stunning Bird Painting , Framed and Signed, with Title.

Excellent bright condition. Watercolour original with sum highlights in original pastel. Absolute stunner. High skill in the line and colouring and beautiful composition. 

Signed and with full title underneath.

Watercolour is 36 x 54 cm.

Very good condition gilt frame is 53 x 71 cm. Behind non-reflective glass. Ready to hang on your wall.

The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Like all other jacanas they have elongated toes and nails that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. They may also swim or wade in water reaching their body while foraging mainly for invertebrate prey. They are found in tropical Asia from Yemen in the west to the Philippines in the east and move seasonally in parts of their range. They are the only jacanas that migrate long distances and with different non-breeding and breeding plumages. The pheasant-tailed jacana forages by swimming or by walking on aquatic vegetation. Females are larger than the males and are polyandrous, laying several clutches that are raised by different males in their harem.