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White-faced Whistling-Duck
Chiriría Cariblanca
Dendrocygna viduata
The white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) is a whistling duck that breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America. This species is gregarious, and at favoured sites, the flocks of a thousand or more birds arriving at dawn are an impressive sight. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear three-note whistling call.
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Sound recorded by JJSUN · XC1079078 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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About the White-faced Whistling-Duck
This atlas includes White-faced Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) with atlas status “Extirpated in Puerto Rico” within scope “Wikipedia supplemental record.” Global trait data associate it primarily with wetland; consult the linked records to resolve its Puerto Rico habitat use.
Conservation
Least Concern
IUCN LC
- Global IUCN
- LC
- Puerto Rico DNER
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Federal ESA
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Critical habitat
- Not identified in source crosswalk
Natural history
How it lives
- Habitat
- wetlands
- Elevation
- 0–3000 m
- Nest
- Ground; Grass
- Clutch
- 4–16 eggs
- Social behavior
- Colonial; Social / flocking
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Research note: Wikipedia uses Dendrocygna bicolor; normalized to current taxonomy Dendrocygna viduata. Wikipedia row repeats Dendrocygna bicolor; common name and cited IUCN taxon indicate Dendrocygna viduata. Not corroborated by current Avibase.