Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

ANSERIFORMES

Anatidae

Whistling Ducks

Dendrocygna bicolor
Marshes, lagoons, wet fields, forest.
Locally from s Mauritania, s Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegambia e
through Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, s Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, C. Afr. Rep., Zaire, s Chad and s Sudan to Ethiopia, Eritrea and
s Somalia, s in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to n Namibia, n,e Botswana and Angola to s S. Africa; Madagascar. S Asia in Pakistan, India n to Himalayan foothills, Sri Lanka, Burma (exc. ne). Americas from c,s California, sw Arizona, c,e Texas, s Louisiana on the Gulf coast, and s Florida; s locally in Mexico to Nayarit, Jalisco, Valley of México and n Veracruz; W. Indies s to Barbados, Grenada, Tobago and Trinidad; El Salvador, c Honduras (L. Yojoa), probably nw Costa Rica; lowlands to 2600 m from n Colombia, n Venezuela and Guianas s, west of the Andes (generally absent from Amazonia) through e Ecuador and e Peru to n,e,se Bolivia, and from Paraguay, Uruguay and c,e Brazil s to c Chile and n Argentina s to Santa Fe and Buenos Aires.
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Dendrocygna javanica
Swamps, lakes, paddyfields.
From Pakistan, Nepal, s China incl. Hainan I., Taiwan and Ryukyu Is., s through India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Malaya to Sri Lanka, Andaman and Nicobar is., Sumatra incl. Bangka, Belitung and Mentawi Is., sw Borneo, Java and the w Lesser Sunda is. of Sumbawa and Flores.
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Dendrocygna viduata
Marshes, swamps, lagoons, rivers.
From Senegambia, s Mauritania, s Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, s Niger, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and s Sudan e to Ethiopia, Eritrea and s Somalia, s in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Angola and in e Africa through Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to s S. Africa; Madagascar and Comoro Is.
Lowlands to 2600 m in nw,w Costa Rica, e Panama, and from n,e Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Trinidad and Guyana s through Ecuador and Brazil to c Peru, Bolivia, n Argentina and Uruguay.
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Dendrocygna bicolor

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Vagrant

Morocco, Spain, France

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Dendrocygna javanica

Lesser Whistling Duck

Vagrant

Israel

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Dendrocygna viduata

White-faced Whistling Duck

Vagrant

Spain, Canary Is

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Swans

Cygnus olor
Lakes, ponds, marshes, sluggish rivers.
From Faroe Is., British Isles, s Scandinavia and w,s Russia s locally through c Europe to s France, n Italy, Greece and Turkey and e across s Russia to w,c Kazakhstan and L. Balkhash to se Siberia and n China. Intro. widely; becoming a pest in the e U.S.
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Cygnus columbianus
Ponds, lakes, sluggish streams, swamps.
C. c. bewickii. [conspecific of the columbianus]
Tundra from n Russia near Finnish border e to n Siberia at long. 160°E, incl. Kolguyev and Vaygach islands and s Novaya Zemlya.
Sometimes regarded as a separate species despite free interbreeding with columbianus in e Siberia.
C. c. columbianus
From e Siberia on the Chukotski Peninsula and nw Alaska s to St. Lawrence I. and Alaska Peninsula, e along Arctic coast incl. Banks I., to Baffin I., s in Hudson Bay to ne Manitoba and Belcher I.
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Cygnus cygnus
Lakes, ponds, marshes, quiet rivers, reedbeds.
From Iceland, Scotland, Scandinavia, n Russia and n Siberia e to Anadyrland and Kamchatka, s (rarely) to Poland, Caspian Sea, Turkestan and n China. Formerly the Faroe Is.
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