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Fulvous Whistling-duck

Dendrocygna bicolor

A summer resident that nests in Louisiana. Found in 27 of 64 parishes, across 8 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
27 of 64 parishes
Habitats
8

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
27 of 64 parishes
Habitats
8
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 8

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 8

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp SystemsJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874)The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterLouisiana Beach; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerWinter

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

SummerWinter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (26)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (17)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Summer and winter.
Land cover and other classes (9)
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer, only within 120 m of water.
  • Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer.
  • Recently Burned Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Forest Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Recently Logged Areas Winter, only within 120 m of water.
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Summer: nests here, in 27 of 64 parishes.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 166

Plant genera in its diet records (11)
  • Cyperus Seeds. 2 diet records. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oryza Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Bidens Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Louisiana
  • Brachiaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Echinochloa Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis Seeds. 1 diet record. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Heteranthera Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Panicum Seeds. 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ranunculus Seeds. 1 diet record. 12 native plants in Louisiana
  • Rhynchospora Seeds. 1 diet record. 44 native plants in Louisiana
  • Scleria Seeds. 1 diet record. 15 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 153

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 179

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 139

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources