Profile
In flight
Waterfowl
Lesser Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna javanica
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
Whistling flocks rise from the rice fields at dusk, long-necked and chestnut-warm against a tropical sky. Asia's most familiar tree-duck, perched as easily as it floats.
- Population
- approximately 0.5 to 1.5 million mature individuals
- Habitat
- freshwater marshes, vegetated ponds, lakes, flooded paddy fields
- Diet
- seeds, aquatic plants, snails, small invertebrates
- Size
- 0.41 m
- Wingspan
- 0.85 m
