White-faced Whistling Duck
Dendrocygna viduata
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Ducks, Swans, and Geese (Anatidae)
- Order
- Anseriformes
Overview
The white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) is a whistling duck that breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America.
This species is gregarious, and the flocks of a thousand or more arrive at dawn at favored sites. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear three-note whistling call.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Africa, Madagascar, and Comoros; disjunctly Costa Rica to Brazil.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Angola
- Argentina
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Paraguay
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: White-faced whistling duck
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
