{"id":17277,"date":"2012-07-16T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:51:18","slug":"black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/ducks\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indian Whistling-duck Dendrocygna arborea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black-billed Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna arborea, is a whistling duck which breeds in the Caribbean. Alternative names are West Indian Whistling Duck and Cuban Whistling Duck. The Black-billed Whistling Duck is widely scattered throughout the West Indies including a large breeding population in the Bahamas, and smaller numbers in Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-29-17277\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-236\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea-2.jpg\" title=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/thumbs\/thumbs_black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-235\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea-1.jpg\" title=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea\/thumbs\/thumbs_black-billed-whistling-duck-dendrocygna-arborea-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/black-bellied_whistling_duck.mp3\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">black-bellied_whistling_duck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black-billed Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna arborea, is a whistling duck which breeds in the Caribbean. 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