BIRD FAMILY
Geese and Ducks

White-faced Whistling Duck
Dendrocygna viduata

A: Nonnetjie-eend
Ss: Lewewe la leramasweu
Z: umabhomfushane

SIZE
48 cm (L)

HABITAT
Large flocks often occur on large rivers, lakes, dams, estuaries, floodplains and sewage ponds, especially where there is surface and emergent vegetation. Spends much of the day resting on shorelines or sandbanks. It is locally nomadic and also makes long-range movements northwards in winter.

SPECIES DESCRIPTION
Common resident. Only other species with white face is female South African Shelduck, from which it can be told by black head and neck, darker plumage and erect stance. Immature has brown-smudged face. The call is a loud, shrill ‘swee-swee-sweeoo’, often by many birds in a flying flock.