You know what it looks like… but what is it called?
TAKE THE QUIZWest Indian whistling-duck
noun
variants
or West Indian whistling duck
or less commonly West Indian tree duck
: a large, secretive, chiefly brown whistling-duck (Dendrocygna arborea) of the West Indies that is usually active in the evening or early morning
The West Indian whistling-duck … is a Caribbean endemic species that is considered endangered throughout its range.—
Wendy A. Lee, in The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno, 2006
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