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  1. Black-bellied whistling duck
    Black-bellied whistling duckSpecies of bird
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  2. DomainEukaryota
    KingdomAnimalia
    PhylumChordata
    ClassAves
    Meet the Whistling Duck
    Meet the Whistling Duck
    Do you know which duck has a distinctive whistling call, a pink bill, and a white wing patch? It's the black-bellied whistling duck, a colorful and charismatic bird that lives in the Americas.
    Taxonomy

    In 1751 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the black-bellied whistling duck in the fourth volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. He used the English na… See more

    Description

    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). It ha… See more

    Distribution and habitat

    The species is widely distributed in the American continent, to the north it includes the southern part of the United States (Texas, Arizona and Louisiana) and Mexico (mainly along the Pacific and Atlantic slopes, Yuc… See more

    Behavior and ecology

    The black-bellied whistling duck is a common species that is "quite tame, even in the wild". It is highly gregarious, or social, forming large flocks when not breeding, and is largely resident apart from local movements… See more

     
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