Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Black-bellied Whistling Duck FAMILY - Anatidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Dendrocygna autumnalis autumalis SYNONYMS - Anas autumnalis - Linnaeus, 1758 REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 29 Resident, species present all year. 3 Hunted - subsistence or commercial 28 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 28 Vulnerable in Belize 28 Hunted - subsistence or commercial 27 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 23 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 5 Corozal 9 Orange Walk 8 Stann Creek 12 Toledo 22 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Shipstern Nature Reserve Collected as voucher February 9 Shipstern Nature Reserve 19 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 24 Gallon Jug 14 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Permanent 12 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 13 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 16 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Dry season 7 Community Baboon Sanctuary 17 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve Dry season 8 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve 20 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve 26 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Wet season 6 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop 12 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 21 Private land, see comments 5 Private land, see comments Permanent 10 Private land, see comments 12 Private land, see comments 18 Government land Sighting Wet season 26 Government land 11 Monkey River Special Development Area 21 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 24 Belize River 12 Belize River 5 Mussel Creek 6 Sibun River 7 New River 8 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 21 1-200 m 24 1-200 m 25 1-200 m 26 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 20 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 26 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 25 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 26 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 11 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 12 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 19 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 9 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 21 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 21 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 21 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 26 Subtropical moist 25 Subtropical moist 24 Subtropical moist 21 General Distribution Comments 29* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 18* Big Falls Rice Farm 12* Boom 10* Gold Button Ranch; Flocks of up to 1000 birds are common in the late dry season 9* Mainly Chacan Chac Mol 5* Banana Bank Ranch 3* Permanent resident, common in northern hardwood forests and coastal savannas; uncommon in southern hardwood forests. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 6 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 7 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 8 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 9 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 10 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 11 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 12 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 13 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 14 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 15 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 16 Forsythe, D. 1994. Unpublished Belize Trip list June 18-21. 17 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 18 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 19 Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995. Mammal Survey, Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF. 20 Barlow, J.C., J.A. Dick, D.H. Baldwin and R.A. Davis. 1969. New records of Birds From British Honduras. Ibis. 115:399-402. 21 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 22 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 23 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 24 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 25 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 26 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 27 Miller, B.W. 1959. Bird Species of Concern. pp. 56-64. in Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1995. National Protected Areas System Plan for Belize, Vol. 3. Zoological Report 236 p. NARMAP. 28 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 29 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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