White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata

White-faced Whistling-duck Dendrocygna viduata

White-faced Whistling Duck, Tono Dam, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image

Ghana and Madagascar
June 2011

The White-faced Whistling-duck is distributed in Africa south of the Sahara and in most of tropical and sub-tropical South America. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It does not seem to be a long distance migrant and it is a monotypic species so I wonder how it spread from one continent to the other.

Found in small to very large groups on or near fresh water wetlands it feeds on both vegetation and on aquatic invertebrates.

White-faced Whistling-duck, Lake Alarobia, Madagascar, November 2016 - click for larger image

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White-faced Whistling-duck, Ankarafantsika, Madagascar, November 2016 - click for larger image

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