White-faced Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna viduata
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Photo: Vincent Vos Bolivia · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
Call and song
Recording 1 · flight call, song
Recording 2
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About the White-faced Whistling-Duck
Striking duck with black-and-white head, rufous breast, and barred flanks. Like all whistling-ducks, long neck and legs give it a gooselike appearance. Found in freshwater marshes, lakes, and rice fields. Usually in flocks, sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Quite widespread in South America and Africa. Feeds at night.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 82 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Angola
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- France
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Guadeloupe
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
