I've never heard the whistle, but apparently it is given by males during
courtship displays. The displays are short and may be overlooked. Birds
of North America describes the whistle as 2.5-3.7 kHz, 150 msec long.
David
At 08:46 AM 11/9/2005, you wrote:
>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.
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>Mark Phinney
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> > 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.....
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> > Wood ducks and Whistling ducks but Whistling ducks are not found in
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