(Credit: U. S. Geological Survey)

Fulvous Whistling-duck - Dendrocygna bicolor

Identification Tips:

  1. Length: 13 inches Wingspan: 36 inches
  2. Large, long-legged, long-necked duck
  3. Sexes similar

Adult:

  1. Dark bill
  2. Dark legs
  3. Rich buff head, neck, chest and belly
  4. Black back with chestnut edging to feathers
  5. White flank stripe
  6. White rump and undertail coverts
  7. Dark tail
  8. Wings dark with chestnut upperwing coverts visible in flight

Immature:

  1. Like adult, but duller with less contrast between back and rump

Similar species:

Adult unmistakable. Immature could be confused with immature Black-bellied Whistling-duck, but note the dark rump, white wing stripe, and the lack of white flank stripe in the latter.