White-faced Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)

Identification & Behavior: ~45.5 cm (18 in). Sexes alike. The White-faced Whistling Duck is mainly brown with shades of black and gray, fine barring on the sides, chestnut breast and lower neck and conspicuous white face and crown. The juvenile is mostly rich brown without the white face of the adult. See Fulvous Whistling Duck, and Black-bellied Whistling Duck.

Status: The White-faced Whistling Duck is poorly known in Peru. Old records come from Amazonia and coastal Peru. More recent reports of sightings come from the Puerto Maldonado area in Southeast Peru.

Name in Spanish: Pato-Silbón de Cara Blanca.

Sub-species: White-faced Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) (Linnaeus, 1766).

Meaning of Name: Dendrocygna: Gr. dendros= tree; and cygna, cygnus= related to a swan. viduata: L. viduata, viduare, viduus = widow in mourning, mourning.

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