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A black-bellied whistling duck in the water. The black-bellied whistling duck is a mid-sized waterfowl species. Length ranges from 47 to 56 cm (19 to 22 in), body mass from 652 to 1,020 g (1.437 to 2.249 lb), and wingspan ranges from 76 to 94 cm (30 to 37 in).
The fulvous whistling duck feeds in wetlands by day or night, often in mixed flocks with relatives such as white-faced or black-bellied whistling ducks. Its food is generally plant material, including seeds, bulbs, grasses and stems, but females may include animal items such as aquatic worms , molluscs and insects as they prepare for egg-laying ...
Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis - Texas - USA_H8O4228: Date: 27 April 2009, 22:22: Source: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Texas - USA_H8O4228: Author: Francesco Veronesi from Italy
Black-bellied whistling-duck, Dendrocygna autumnalis (O) Snow goose, Anser caerulescens (Unc) Ross's goose, Anser rossii (R) Greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons (O) Canada goose, Branta canadensis (R) Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus (R) Wood duck, Aix sponsa (Unc) Blue-winged teal, Spatula discors; Cinnamon teal, Spatula cyanoptera
On Thursday, CZCL said its Inca terns, white-faced whistling ducks and cattle egrets had been rehomed in Oxfordshire. It also said its coscoroba swans, ruddy shelducks and mandarin ducks had gone ...
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]
🚨 Rare Bird Alert: Black-bellied whistling ducks have been spotted with ducklings on a wildlife area in Wayne County.... Posted by Ohio Division of Wildlife on Monday, August 19, 2024
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 ...