#1060 · 🐦 birds

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

🇳🇱 Zwartbuikfluiteend ·Dendrocygna autumnalis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © cello caruso-turiello · CC BY 4.0
2. © Don Abrams · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Sue Wetmore · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Michael Hochstetler · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Janice Johnston · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jorge Amador González Pelayo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © jannier_vargas · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Owen Woodhouse · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © J. S. Joseph · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-bellied whistling duck ( Dendrocygna autumnalis ), formerly also called black-bellied tree duck , is a whistling duck that breeds from the southernmost United States and tropical Central to south-central South America. In the USA, it can be found year-round in parts of southeast Texas, and seasonally in southeast Arizona, and Louisiana's Gulf Coast. It is a rare breeder in such disparate locations as Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina, though it is now a common breeder in...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 58,632iNaturalist observations
weight 831 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
58,632 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 831 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).