Wandering whistling duck

Wandering whistling duck
At Melbourne Zoo, Australia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Dendrocygna
Species:
D. arcuata
Binomial name
Dendrocygna arcuata
(Horsfield, 1824)
Subspecies
  • D. a. arcuata (Indonesian wandering whistling duck) (Horsfield, 1824)
  • D. a. australis (Australian wandering whistling duck) (Reichenbach, 1850)
  • D. a. pygmaea (New Britain wandering whistling duck) (Mayr, 1945)

The wandering whistling duck (Dendrocygna arcuata) is a species of whistling duck. They inhabit tropical and subtropical Australia, the Philippines, Borneo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands.