LESSER WHISTLING-DUCK

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(*  901)               LESSER WHISTLING-DUCK                  Dendrocygna javanica

MALAYSIA              46

Lowland lakes, large rivers and marshes. 40 cm. Found throughout SE Asia. 

LESSER WHISTLING-DUCK

Photographed March 2017

(*   901)               LESSER WHISTLING-DUCK                  Dendrocygna javanica

SRI LANKA               46

Found on freshwater marshes and tanks. 42 cm. Common breeding resident throughout lowlands.

WANDERING WHISTLING-DUCK

522          WANDERING WHISTLING-DUCK              Dendrocygna arcuata

Australia        (363)

Also called Diving Whistling-duck. 55-61 cm. Ranges across tropical and subtropical n. Australia, from Fitroy R. (WA), to se. Q; ; NSW, Vic., sw. WA. Also in Philippines, Indonesia, PNG and Pacific Islands. habitat is well-vegetated lagoons and swamps, flooded grassland, pools in floodplains, river margins, well-vegetated large dams, occasionally tidal areas.

WHITE-FACED WHISTLING DUCK

363            WHITE-FACED WHISTLING DUCK             Dendrocygna viduata

South Africa         (56)

Breeds in sub-Saharan Afica and much of South America.

PLUMED WHISTLING-DUCK

103         PLUMED WHISTLING-DUCK           Dendrocygna eytoni

Australia     (103)

41-62 cm. Found on margins of waterholes, farm dams, wetlands, floodplains, irrigated lands, rice fields. Range north of WA, ne three quarters of NT, Queensland, NSW except sw, Victoria except nw, Small parted to large flocks.