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Fulvous Whistling-duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
The Fulvous Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna bicolor, is a whistling duck which breeds across the world’s tropical regions in much of Central and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
This species is gregarious, and at favoured sites substantial flocks can form. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear whistling kee-wee-ooo call.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 13 inches Wingspan: 36 inches
• Large, long-legged, long-necked duck
• Sexes similar
Adult:
• Dark bill
• Dark legs
• Rich buff head, neck, chest and belly
• Black back with chestnut edging to feathers
• White flank stripe
• White rump and undertail coverts
• Dark tail
• Wings dark with chestnut upperwing coverts visible in flight
Similar species:
Adult is unmistakable. Immature could be confused with immature Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, but note the dark rump, white wing stripe, and the lack of white flank stripe in the latter.
Its habitat is still freshwater lakes, paddy fields or reservoirs with plentiful vegetation, where this duck feeds mainly at night on seeds and other parts of plants.
This species is gregarious, and at favored sites substantial flocks can form. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear whistling kee-wee-ooo call.
It’s as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.
An Irish proverb
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