#0961 · 🐦 birds

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

🇳🇱 Rosse Fluiteend ·Dendrocygna bicolor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)

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what is it?

The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck ( Dendrocygna bicolor ) is a whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern US, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It has mainly reddish brown plumage, long legs and a long grey bill, and shows a distinctive white band across its black tail in flight. Like other members of its ancient lineage, it has a whistling...

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,631iNaturalist observations
weight 682 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).