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The black-bellied whistling duck is now placed in the genus Dendrocygna and was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William John Swainson to distinguish whistling ducks from other waterfowl. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with the genus Cygnus containing the swans that was introduced by ...
Whistling ducks were first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758: the black-bellied whistling duck (then Anas autumnalis) and the West Indian whistling duck (then Anas arborea). [1] In 1837, William John Swainson named the genus Dendrocygna to distinguish whistling ducks from the other waterfowl. [2]
Black-bellied whistling-ducks are usually found far from Ohio. Normally found along the Mexican border and Gulf Coast, the black-bellied whistling-duck has been making its way northward, according ...
Genus Dendrocygna Swainson 1837 (whistling/tree ducks) Subgenus (Lamprocygna) Boetticher 1949. Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus 1766) (white-faced whistling-duck) LC; Dendrocygna autumnalis (Linnaeus 1758) (black-bellied whistling-duck) LC. D. a. fulgens Friedmann 1947 (Northern black-bellied whistling duck)
In August, the Division of Wildlife reported that black-bellied whistling-ducks, normally found around the US-Mexico border, were nesting in Northeast Ohio. They were spotted with ducklings in ...
Black-bellied whistling-ducks are usually found far from Ohio. Normally found along the Mexican border and Gulf Coast, the black-bellied whistling-duck has been making its way northward, according ...
Black-bellied whistling duck: Dendrocygna autumnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) 2 Spotted whistling duck: Dendrocygna guttata Schlegel, 1866: 3 West Indian whistling duck: Dendrocygna arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) 4 Fulvous whistling duck: Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot, 1816) 5 Plumed whistling duck: Dendrocygna eytoni (Eyton, 1838) 6 Wandering whistling duck
Seven years since a first sighting, black-bellied whistling ducks in Southwestern Indiana have regular breeding populations. Indiana becoming home to duck with 'harlot-like face' and 'lipstick ...