Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Records
Note: All records listed here have been accepted by PORC and published in their Annual Report unless otherwise noted.
All records are listed in reverse chronological order.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck --- Pymatuning Wildlife Management Area, Crawford County; August 31, 2008. Photos by Kevin Jacobs.
This bird was captured in a Pennsylvania Game Commission duck trap, then photographed and banded.
There are very few records of them for Pennsylvania.
Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks --- near Pleasantville, Berks County; June 4, 2006. Photo by Dave DeReamus.
Note the black belly, white wing patch, red bill, and light eye ring on the gray face. All four birds are in this picture, although the fourth bird is hidden by the dead gray stems just below and in front of the tallest bird.
There are very few records of them for Pennsylvania.
Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks --- Loyalhanna Lake, Westmoreland County; June 14, 1993. Photo by Mike Fialkovich.
There were eleven birds originally found there on June 8th that remained until June 22nd. This photo shows three of the birds. This was a year when this species was found in several neighboring states both to the north and south of Pennsylvania.
