Duck pic. What kind is it?
 

Not sure what type of duck this even is. They landed in a pond next door to my house and I snapped some pics. Thought they were cool.

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can't see pics yet but gonna go with black bellied whistling ducks

That is a redx duck, been really overpopultaing the internet forums lately.

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got it

Mexican Whistling duck. They like wood duck boxes if the entrance hole is big enough.

Not sure what the proper name is.

Black Belly. Shoot all you can during the season. They taste pretty good

Black-bellied whistling duck AKA Tree Ducks. IMO best eating duck there is. They are starting to show up everywhere in LA. We shoot a lot in Pecan Island. I see them all the time when I am fishing Big Lake. There are 2 different species. That one and the fulvous whistling duck. They have grey feet and blue bills and are more darker colored.

Black belly. Best eating duck there is.

They were in a flock of about 25

Shoulda scrape shot em. And sent em to me.

At my camp in PI, about 50 of em roost everyday in the pond behind my camp. They sound pretty cool, almost like a widgeon but they call alot like wood ducks. Fun to shoot cause they come in flocks of 10-20 and their wingspan is so big you can knock a few down in one shot. And they are pretty stupid.

A public Official in Thibodaux got busted shooting them out of season, don't do that.

That's some pretty good photgraphy skills, you going to make Huntin Fool jealous

They good to eat in a pot roast

Here is a fulvous whistling duck I have mounted. Gotta skin em to cook though. Skin is full of pin feathers.

We always called those Mexican Squealers. Look like them to me. Never heard they were good to eat, thats interesting.

are these all males? I didn't see any any that looked different from others? i.e Greenhead and hen

Yeh thats what we call em. I am telling u. If you do get the chance to kill some, skin them and cook them in a gravy. Not even teal can touch em. :smokin:

Dude, they the best eating ducks that fly. We call em squeelers also but as mentioned there are two kinds. The OP's pics are of the black bellies and then there are the fulvous! Both delicious and you for sure don't have to skin them.

Males and females look alike.

Yup, they were almost classified as geese. They are closely related to geese.

Very good to eat! Right up there with a wood duck.

they are stupid as hell though...usually can get a group to come back after they've been shot at...

So squeelers and black belly whistling ducks the same?

Yes. Also, squeelers and fulvous whistling ducks are the same. Squeeler is just a slang term. It's not a real name.

Mexican squealers are the same as a whistling duck (fulvous or black bellied)

A squealer is a wood duck

Mexican fulvous black bellied squealing duck

there got'em covered.

forgot whistler

Those are all adults, these will nest anywhere, have seen em on rice field levees, patches of hyacinth, tree cavities, and wood duck boxes. After they nest, they start to disperse and can get into huge flocks. Near the Audobon Zoo in NO, the grain bins will roost over 15,000 a day.

The fulvous seem to like the rice fields more than the black-bellieds


forgot to add that i heard they were good to eat, and they are dumb too, and people call em squealers!

Black belly whistling squeelers....in case it wasn't said already

Mexican fulvous black bellied squeastling duck

BAM!!....that just happend! new word created.

What?:shaking:

Bahahaha!!!!! Awesome

man that is a pretty mount

you usually see these driving white vans with no windows...stranger danger

lmao! 'MERICA!

Out of all the ducks i've killed in my life i don't think i've ever killed a squeeler.

One time last year We crippled one in the marsh and never found it. Otherwise never seen one up close.

Go to the Lacassine exit and head north thru the rice country tons of them there

shot the crap out of them in cameron one year.

They have 2 where I train at that are real stupid. I hope I meet some more dumb ones in November

Thats weird you knew w/o pics. What made you guess these? Are they common this time of year?

Very common this time of year. Some years back they were thick in sabine. First it was the fulvous. Then the black belly seemed more common. We used to kill truck loads of em. Wasn't nothing to come out of there with a 4 man limit of squealers. I have a blackbelly and a fulvous mounted together the fulvous was banded.

We kill about 30-40/season in PI, sometimes more. But we hunt the north side of hwy. You don't see many on southside from what I hear.

aka: Mexican squealer

We call'em mexican squelers they are stacked on the calcasieu river right now guess they dont migrate.

....and I heard dey good in a gravy