Meet the jacanas, a family of wading birds that are spread across Asia, Africa, South and Central America, and Australia.

In early 2019, a woman in Maryborough, Queensland spotted a comb-crested jacana carrying its chicks to safety and got some great pictures.

We’ll leave you with some footage of a comb-crested jacana carrying some very tiny chicks sway at the Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve in the Northern Territory:

This image was originally posted to Flickr
by berniedup at https://www.flickr.com/photos/65695019@N07/11464988764