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West Indian Whistling-Duck

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132350840_588b2bab5d.jpg?v=0 (154440 bytes) Black-billed Whistling Duck - Cuban Whistling Duck Alternate name
Dendrocygna arborea Scientific name 
Anseriformes Order
Dendrocygnidae Family   
48-58 cm               Length
Wooded swamps and lakes, mangroves. Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Windward Islands, Habitat
Altitude
Range
10-16 Clutch    Eggs
Aquatic vegetation Food    Diet
Secretive, nocturnal.  Arboreal                Habits
350 - TSN: 175048  World No
Vulnerable    BirdLife Preventing Extinctions  Whistling Duck.org/ Please support all efforts to protect this bird. Status

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West Indian Whistling-Duck Daniel Lane Laguna Cartagena, Puerto Rico call XC46665

Video by  helsbellsbda

 

Czech: Husicka stromová, husička stromová
Danish: Cubatrćand
German: Kubabaumente, Kubapfeifgans
English: Black-billed Tree-Duck, Black-billed Whistling Duck, Black-billed Whistling-Duck, Cuban Tree-Duck, Cuban Whistling Duck, Cuban Whistling-Duck, Wandering Whistling Duck, West Indian Tree Duck, West Indian Treeduck, West Indian Tree-Duck, West Indian Whistling Duck, West Indian Whistling-Duck
Spanish: Chiriría, Chiriría Caribeńa, Pato silbador pico negro, Suirirí yaguaza, Yaguasa, Yaguasa de Pico Negro, Yaguaza
Spanish (Cuba): Yaguasa
Spanish (Dominican Rep.): Yaguaza
Estonian: palmi-vilepart
Finnish: Karibianviheltäjäsorsa
French: Dendrocygne ŕ bec noir, Dendrocygne de Cuba, Dendrocygne des Antilles
Guadeloupean Creole French: Canard siffleur
Haitian Creole French: Jenjon fran
Italian: Anatra fischiatrice becco nero, Dendrocigna becconero, Dendrocigna delle Indie Occidentali
Japanese: hashiguroryuukyuugamo
Japanese: ハシグロリュウキュウガモ
Latin: Dendrocygna arborea
Dutch: Cuba boomeend, Cubaanse Fluiteend, Westindische Fluiteend
Norwegian: Palmeplystreand
Polish: drzewica karaibska
Russian: Древесная черноклювая утка, Кубинская древесная утка
Slovak: stromárka velká
Swedish: Karibisk visseland, Karibvisseland
Turkish: Batı Hindistan Islıkçı Ördeği
Chinese: 西印度树鸭, 黑嘴树鸭

 

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