Louisiana announces its first-ever special October hunting season for black-bellied whistling ducks. Here are the permit, bag ...

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Today we meet the black-bellied whistling-duck, a noisy, gregarious species of duck that might eat all of your rice. The black-bellied whistling-duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) is known as the piche or ...

Rare Fulvous whistling ducks spotted in Malappuram's Cherumukku wetlands, marking the first sighting of this species in the ...

Readers have been asking me about some odd-looking ducks roaming their yards. I understand the wonderment. Black-bellied whistling-ducks don’t walk like typical ducks, nor feed like typical ducks.

In my long-ago youth, I'd see black-bellied whistling ducks only in the Rio Grande Valley; and my great-great-grandfather could have only seen them in Mexico. But now, I look out my window to see the ...

Louisiana took an important second step to a first special season on black-bellied whistling ducks when the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted a nine-day opportunity for 2026 during its meeting ...