Whistling Duck Flock

by Dawn Currie

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Whistling Duck Flock

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Dawn Currie

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Photograph - Digital

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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. A flock of Whistling Ducks over Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.

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Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis)

The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is a boisterous duck with a brilliant pink bill and an unusual, long-legged silhouette. You may hear them before you seem them - these ducks really do have a whistle for their call. Common south of the U.S., Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks occur in several southern states and are expanding northward.

The whistling-ducks were formerly known as tree-ducks, but only a few, such as the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck actually perch or nest in trees. They look most like ducks, but their lack of difference between males and females, relatively long-term pair bonds, and lack of complex pair-forming behavior more resembles geese and swans.

Although I have encountered these ducks in other areas of central and southern Florida, my favorite place to photograph them is the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands in Viera Florida

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January 20th, 2014

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