#0956 · 🐦 birds
White-faced Whistling-Duck
🇳🇱 Witwangfluiteend ·Dendrocygna viduata
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- 1. © Bird Explorers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Lilian Tomazelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Elio Giacone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Mariano Fernández Kloster · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 6. © Luciano Bernardes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Ariel Rotondo · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 10. © Gawie Malan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The white-faced whistling duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ) is a whistling duck that breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America.
base stats
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
- Spotted 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,846 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 674 g.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- Nederlands
- Witwangfluiteend
- scientific name
- Dendrocygna viduata
- class
- Aves
- order
- Anseriformes
- family
- Anatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 77
- sightings worldwide
- 12,846
- GBIF records in NL
- 136
- weight
- 674 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 6898, Wikidata Q742574, GBIF 2498396, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.