#dendrocygna

[snototter]

A pair of lesser whistling ducks (Dendrocygna javanica) at their nest in a tree hollow in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka

by Gary Stephenson

[herpsandbirds]

Lesser Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna javanica), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

photograph by @udaya_kumar_b

[lonelywretchjervistetch]

Life-List Art #1: BBWD

Common Name: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Species: Dendrocygna autumnalis fulgens

Description: A calm, social, dabbling duck Motto: Want corn, will travel.

Conservation: Least Concern Range: Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America; travels up eastern USA from Florida to Maine Habitat: Freshwater ponds, lakes, and wetlands surrounded by savannahs and open forests; occasionally mangrove swamps

Food: Grain, weeds, invertebrates, tadpoles, and anything that farmers scare up while harvesting the soil Breeding Info: Dual-parenting monogamy, cavity or ground-nesting, raising precocial independent chicks; occasionally dump the kids off with somebody else (brood parasites, sometimes) Sound: chip-peeeeeEEEEEE-che-che-ne

Life List Notes: Saw a flock of these guys in a water treatment plant in southern New Hampshire, all hanging out. I'd suggest going there, but they shut it down to birders a few years ago. Bummer, 'cause that place ruled.

Keeping my drawing muscles warm, as well as my bird brain, and felt the urge to draw a Black-bellied Whistling Duck! I'm also kinda tempted to keep making these as stickers to sell, so if people like this, lemme know, yeah? For now, though, gonna try to draw all the bird species I've seen in the wild!

Next: SNGO

[best-bird-tournament]

Whistling duck (Dendrocygna)

Which is the best bird?

West Indian whistling duck

Black-bellied whistling duck

Fulvous whistling duck

Wandering whistling duck

Lesser whistling duck

White-faced whistling duck

Plumed whistling duck

Spotted whistling duck

Voting ended onMay 17, 2025

[saritawolf]

White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[birdblues]

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

[properjobproductions]

A Lesser Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna Javanica) also known as the Indian Whistling Duck.

Professional Prints can be brought from http://www.properjobproductions.co.uk or by emailing [email protected]

[travelella]

Whistling ducks - Redhead Pond Wildlife Management Area, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Scientific name: Dendrocygninae

Family: Anatidae

Genus: Dendrocygna; Swainson, 1837

Kingdom: Animalia

Order: Anseriformes

Subfamily: Dendrocygninae; Reichenbach, 1850

The whistling ducks or tree ducks are a subfamily, Dendrocygninae, of the duck, goose and swan family of birds, Anatidae. In other taxonomic schemes, they are considered a separate family, Dendrocygnidae. 

Black-bellied whistling ducks are found in areas with a nearby supply of shallow fresh water, like marshes, swamps, lakes and ponds. They are also commonly found in farm fields, prairies and pastures.

They occur in Southern Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Florida and rarely in other parts of the southern U.S.; also in Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean.