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The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a species of whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern United States, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
The whistling ducks or tree ducks are a subfamily, Dendrocygninae, of the duck, ... (especially within the Fulvous whistling duck species) ...
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
Fulvous whistling-duck. Common name: Ducks, geese, and waterfowl Family: Anatidae. Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans.These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] ... Fulvous whistling duck; Fulvous wren;
Thalassornis leuconotus Eyton 1838 (white-backed duck) LC. T. l. leuconotus Eyton 1838 (African white-backed duck) T. l. insularis (Richmond 1897) (Madagascan white-backed duck) Genus Dendrocygna Swainson 1837 (whistling/tree ducks) Subgenus (Lamprocygna) Boetticher 1949. Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus 1766) (white-faced whistling-duck) LC
The black-bellied whistling duck is a common species that is "quite tame, even in the wild". [16] It is highly gregarious, or social, forming large flocks when not breeding, and is largely resident apart from local movements. It usually nests in hollow trees (in South America many times in palm trees).
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nepal. ... Fulvous whistling-duck, ... They have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first, unlike other birds ...