Been duck hunting quite a bit and never seen one. Seen millions of whistling tree ducks but never a Fulvous. I’m around the Victoria area, how common are they here?
The muskovee of ducks and the only one ive seen that loves powerlines.
They walk in the back of the dairy barn.... full of cows. I bet I could catch one by hand tomorrow if I wanted to and it “wasn’t illegal “. Cough cough
Been duck hunting quite a bit and never seen one. Seen millions of whistling tree ducks but never a Fulvous. I’m around the Victoria area, how common are they here?
They aren't as common as they used to be here now that rice production is a fraction of what it used to be.
Whistling-ducks are a distinctive group of about 8 species of brightly colored, oddly proportioned waterfowl. The Fulvous Whistling-Duck is a mix of rich caramel-brown and black, a long-legged and long-necked creature found in warm freshwater marshes across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In the United States they are rarely found far from rice fields, which provide both food and an optimal water depth for these gangly birds to forage in. They often roost in trees and were once known as “tree ducks.”
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