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My favorite duck.
From Cornell:
The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is a boisterous duck with a brilliant pink bill and an unusual, long-legged silhouette. In places like Texas and Louisiana, watch for noisy flocks of these gaudy ducks dropping into fields to forage on seeds, or loafing on golf course ponds. Listen for them, too—these ducks really do have a whistle for their call. Common south of the U.S., Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks occur in several southern states and are expanding northward.
From the photographer: Their range is constantly expanding. I love to hear and watch the large flocks in Palm Beach County fly around, back and forth, trying to decide where to land and all the time whistling!
As for this post - it's on a ranch in the middle of nowhere and there is often a bird perched on top of it - this was the first time it was a duck.
From Cornell Lab -
BASIC DESCRIPTION
The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is a boisterous duck with a brilliant pink bill and an unusual, long-legged silhouette. In places like Texas and Louisiana, watch for noisy flocks of these gaudy ducks dropping into fields to forage on seeds, or loafing on golf course ponds. Listen for them, too—these ducks really do have a whistle for their call. Common south of the U.S., Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks occur in several southern states and are expanding northward.
My favorite association with this duck is to watch them fly over in a flock and descend into their chosen area for the night, whistling the whole time.
You can see them in flock formation flying below - look closely and you can see how they often dangle their feet in flight.
Wikipedia: The blue whistling thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) is a whistling thrush that is found in the mountains of Central Asia, South Asia, China and Southeast Asia. It is known for its loud human-like whistling song at dawn and dusk. The widely distributed populations show variations in size and plumage with several of them considered as subspecies. Like others in the genus, they feed on the ground, often along streams and in damp places foraging for snails, crabs, fruits and insects. It is found along the Tian Shan and Himalayas, in temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The species ranges across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Pakistan and Vietnam. They make altitudinal movements in the Himalayas, descending in winter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whistling_thrush
Conservation status: Least Concern
A windy day with the Leicestershire Red Kites, I'll miss these wonderful birds of prey when I move north.
Their flapping wings produce a sound that earned them the name "whistling swan." They migrate thousands of miles to enjoy a milder winter in North America's Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, bays, and lakes. Twice a year, they fly 6,000 kilometers round-trip between the breeding and wintering locations.
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Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
Sunset light
Couple Whistling Heron
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Maria-faceira - Whistling Heron
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Whistling Kite, Haliastur sphenurus
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Lots of Kites are beginning ot show up along the farm lands here.
Been quite awhile since we've had them in any number.
There were hundreds of whistling ducks in this marsh and the majority of them were gathered in groups with only a few who took flight in the mist. Once the mist began to burn off many more took flight. This moment unfolded while I was standing on an elevated dock.
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Lens：Hasselblad 45mm f4.0
Film: Fujifilm 400
Develop：C41 39C 3:50 mins
Blix: 8:00mins 39C
Wash： 3:00 mins
Stabilizer: 1min
Flo： 1 min
Scan：Epson E800
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Whistling Kite, Haliastur sphenurus
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Another from the Kites at Play sequence. This one is climbing and turning to circle a tree.
This lovely Black-bellied Whistling-duck had studied to be a ballerina since she was a small duckling. Here she is showing off her classy take-off. (Dendrocygna autumnal) (Sony a1ii, 400mm lens @ f/2.8, 1/3200 second, ISO 1600)
For those not from Southeast Florida, this was taken at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, in Delray Beach. Another related area I would recommend is Green Cay Wetlands. Enjoy!
Whistling Kite, Haliastur sphenurus
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Whistling Kites were not at the front of the que for "Dress Sense" lessons.
But, I'm not complaining as they have been absent from the area for the past couple of seasons, so it's good to have a few back in the area.
Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis)
A look back at the 20th of July last year, a Saturday, when we were at Newport Lakes for a Little Athletics Cross Country.
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Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
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Gilbert's Whistler (Pachycephala inornata) is a songbird which is found over much of the arid and semi-arid zone of inland southern Australia including southern Western Australia, South Australia, northwest Victoria and central west New South Wales. It's voice includes some very loud, melodious songs but individuals can be secretive and are not always easy to locate and photograph.
I call this a groundhog, however, I've read that they're also known as 'whistle pig' for an alarm vocalization they sometimes make. On this day I heard that sound for the very first time, despite the fact that I've spent an enormous amount of time over the years observing groundhogs. The sound was shocking because these sweet animals are normally very quiet. It was a sudden (the groundhog didn't even take the time to swallow the dandelion greens she'd been eating) very loud whistle/shriek, repeated intermittently perhaps half-a-dozen times over a period of about 15 minutes. She bared her teeth throughout that time, which is something else I've never before seen a groundhog do. There is no doubt that groundhogs in a large area would hear the alarm call. I never did see what the threat was, but I have no doubt there was one.