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EDITOR: Strange (for me living in the US) off-white color for the face of this duck in Africa.
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Photo Properties
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D2Xs
Aperture Value
f/4
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Manual
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
500 mm
ISO
100
Metering Mode
Center Weighted Average
Shutter Speed Value
1/320 sec
Date/Time
Thu 24 Dec 2009 03:13:08 PM EST
English White-faced Whistling Duck
Scientific (Dendrocygna viduata)
Order ANSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Anatidae
Family (English) Ducks, Geese, Swans
Other name(s) White-faced Whistling-duck, White-faced Duck, White-faced Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygne veuf
Breeding Regions AF, SA
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Argentina,Benin,Bolivia,Botswana,Brazil,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde, Central African Republic,Chad,Colombia,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo,Djibouti,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,French Guiana, Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Lesotho, Liberia,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mozambique,Namibia,Netherlands Antilles,Niger,Nigeria, Paraguay,Peru,Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Suriname, Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Uganda,Uruguay,Venezuela,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766)
German Witwenpfeifgans
French Dendrocygne veuf
Chinese 白脸树鸭
Japanese シロガオリュウキュウガモ
Russian Белолицая древесная утка
Spanish Suirirí cariblanco
Portuguese irerê
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)