{"id":38915,"date":"2024-05-24T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66e6f1e6-a4ad-4f40-9572-f3a6921f675d"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:35:39","slug":"which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Which bird has the biggest toes? And just how are they able to walk on &#8216;water&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">There&#8217;s only one bird in contention for the title bird with the biggest toes says Stuart Blackman <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 24 May 2024 at 10:27 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><strong>The accolade for bird with the biggest toes has to go to Jacanas \u2013 a group of tropical wading birds \u2013 says Stuart Blackman.<\/strong><\/p><p>Jacanas possess preposterously long toes relative to body size that spread the birds\u2019 weight, enabling them to walk on floating vegetation, such as lilypads, without sinking. <\/p><p>This talent has earned them the nickname \u2018lily trotters\u2019.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1850408911.mp4\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty video<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Using these oversized appendages, jacanas navigate their wetland home, foraging for aquatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/what-are-insects\">insects<\/a>, fish and seeds. The disproportionate size of the toes reaches comic extremes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/how-quickly-do-chicks-leave-the-nest\">chicks<\/a>.<\/p><p\/><p>These lengthy &#8211; and frankly weird &#8211; toes have rightly earned jacanas a place on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/weirdest-birds\">weirdest birds in the world list<\/a><\/p><p>Jacanas are found in tropical regions all around the world and live in wetlands. They are even able to swim underwater.<\/p><p><strong>Discover more record-breaking birds<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/largest-owl\">What&#8217;s the biggest owl?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/biggest-birds\">The biggest birds in the world (by maximum weight): Discover towering, weighty avian giants<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/smallest-birds-in-the-world\">Smallest birds in the world: discover tiny avian wonders<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/smallest-owl-in-the-world\">What is the smallest owl in the world?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p\/><p>Main image: Getty Images<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s only one bird in contention for the title bird with the biggest toes says Stuart Blackman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":38916,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water.jpg",2121,1414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/which-bird-has-the-biggest-toes-and-just-how-are-they-able-to-walk-on-water-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There's only one bird in contention for the title bird with the biggest toes says Stuart Blackman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/38915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}