Details
WANDERING WHISTLING-DUCK (Dendrocygna arcuata) – Whistling Ducks are a distinct group within the duck family and are quite closely related to swans and geese. They have long necks and broad rounded wings with notched feathers which produce a whirring sound in flight. Unlike most ducks, Whistling Ducks pair for life and the males share in the incubation of the eggs as well as look after the ducklings.
Fact Card
COMMON NAME: Wandering Whistling Duck
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Dendrocygna arcuata
TYPE: Extirpated
DIET: Grasses, waterlilies, water plants and occasionally insects and aquatic vertebrae.
SIZE: 54–60 cm in height
RECORDED SIGHTINGS: Viti Levu
GROUP NAME: KINGDOM – Animalia / PHYLUM – Chordata / CLASS – Aves
ORDER – Anseriformes / FAMILY – Anatidae / GENUS – Dendrocygna
Video: Wandering Whistling Duck
Audio: Wandering Whistling Duck
IUCN Red List Status
Additional Photographs
References
- [Sara Young]. (2019, January 2). Wandering Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna arcuata [Audio]. Macaulay Library. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/132566781
- [Robert Humphries]. (2019, May 21). Wandering Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna arcuata [Video]. Macaulay Library. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/201992881
- ICUN REDLIST (2018). The Red List Assessment Wandering Whistling duck [Photograph]. ICUN. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22679753/131906867
- Wandering whistling duck. (2022, October 2). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_whistling_duck
Additional Sources of Information
- NatureFiji-MareqetiViti is Fiji’s only domestic NGO working solely for the conservation and sustainable management of Fiji’s unique natural heritage – https://naturefiji.org/
