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Re: Mallards whistling

Subject: Re: Mallards whistling
From: "M, J, & V Phinney" <>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:46:58 -0700
I've spent a lot of time in the presence of mallards and never heard a
whistle call. Male green-winged teal and pintails have a short whistle note,
and wigeons have a wheezy whistle. As Rich says, male blue-wings also make a
candidate note, but to me it sounds more like a rubber ducky squeeze toy.
And as stated below, wood ducks have an obvious whistle note.

Mark Phinney



on 11/8/05 9:18 PM, Martyn Stewart at  wrote:

> Just a quickie, has anybody on this list heard Mallards whistle?
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> I have had a question about them whistling, I have hours of mallard
> recordings but I cant recall any whistling!
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> I know about this time they go through the courtship routine with plenty of
> quacking sounds for which I know I have.....
> 
> Wood ducks and Whistling ducks but Whistling ducks are not found in
> Washington State.
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