Black-bellied whistling duck

Black-bellied whistling duck
Northern subspecies (D. a. fulgens, note brown breast). The white wing patch, a tell-tale feature of this species, is conspicuous in flight.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Dendrocygna
Species:
D. autumnalis
Binomial name
Dendrocygna autumnalis
Subspecies

D. a. autumnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
D. a. fulgens (Friedmann, 1947)

Range of D. autumnalis
Synonyms

Anas autumnalis Linnaeus, 1758 Dendrocygna fallalis Gosler, 1991[2]

The black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), formerly called the black-bellied tree duck, is a whistling duck that before 2000 bred mainly in the southernmost United States, Mexico, and tropical Central to south-central South America. It can be found year-round in much of the United States. It has been recorded in every eastern state and adjacent Canadian province.[3] Since it is one of only two whistling duck species native to North America, it is occasionally just known as the "whistling duck" or "Mexican squealer" in the southern USA.

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2021). "Dendrocygna autumnalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22679780A138940651. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22679780A138940651.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ The Photographic Guide to Birds of the World. Academic Press (Andrew Gosler, ed.; 1991 (326). The name fallalis is a nomen nudum therein.)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference McCormac was invoked but never defined (see the help page).