Landing
by Felix Lai
Title
Landing
Artist
Felix Lai
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This photo captured several Black-bellied Whistling Ducks landing in early spring in Florida. These Black-bellied Whistling Ducks were winter migrating birds although Black-bellied Whistling Duck could be full time residents in Florida.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Whistling Duck
The black-bellied whistling duck, formerly called the black-bellied tree duck, is a whistling duck that breeds from the southernmost United States, Mexico, and tropical Central to south-central South America. In the US, it can be found year-round in peninsular Florida, parts of southeast Texas, coastal Alabama and Mississippi and seasonally in southeast Arizona, and Louisiana's Gulf Coast. It is a rare breeder in such disparate locations as Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina, though it is now a common breeder in parts of central Florida. There is a large population of several hundred that winter each year in Audubon Park in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. 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.
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September 17th, 2021
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