Wandering Whistling-Duck

Photo: Courtesy of
 Naturalist Guide Damon Ramsey  
 

WANDERING WHISTLING-DUCK: Dendrocygna arcuata 54 - 60cm

• They are also called 'tree ducks' due to their habit of sitting on logs and in trees rather than in the water.

• They usually graze on grasses, often quite far away from water, and often at night.

Identifying characteristics:

• Called "whistling" because of their calls and the sound of their flight. 

• In flight, it has short rounded wings, with trailing legs.

• Has blackish crown and hind neck, and brownish-black upperparts

Distribution:

• Wetlands throughout the tropics. Also found in North America.

Habitat:

• Found in deep vegetated lagoons and swamps, and flooding grasslands.

Call:

• Is a distinctive; shrill and whistling.

Script courtesy of Naturalist Guide Damon Ramsey

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