Plumed whistling duck (6/8)
Plumed whistling ducks are rare vagrants to New Zealand, and there appearance here often follows droughts in Australia where they are nomadic, following rain and floods to colonise temporary wetlands.
- Scientific name
- Dendrocygna eytoni
- Common names
- plumed whistling duck, grass whistling duck, plumed whistle duck, grass whistle duck, plumed tree duck, Eyton’s whistling duck, Eyton’s tree duck, whistler
- Location
- Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
- Photo ID
- 16012
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