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Mexican Whistling Duck

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Gwamp from the swamp
August 08, 2006 at 10:11am
Here is a picture of a Mexican Whistling Duck. It is also known as a Black Bellied Tree Duck ? Picture taken by Scott Schexnaydre in Destrehan La.
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   GreenHeadKiller
August 08, 2006 at 10:21am
Thanx that helps I know what that is now
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   Guy L
August 08, 2006 at 10:31am
I have seen them several times in the past in the trees of Chicot State Park. They scare the snot out of you when you are concentrating on a quiet approach in a little cove to fish and a pair of these things takes off from the branches above your head. They let you get pretty close before they abandon their tree, close enough to startle you. Never saw one in the marsh, but have seen them more than once at Chicot.
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   Landon C
August 08, 2006 at 12:13pm
If anyone wants to see some of these ducks just go play a round of golf in the evening at Willowdale Country Club in Luling. They roost in the trees behind the 15th hole.
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   stopandgo
August 08, 2006 at 1:05pm
I is good to see these birds making a return to South LA. I have seen a lot of the Fulvous Whistling ducks this summer. hope I get the chance to bag one this duck season.
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   scratch
August 08, 2006 at 2:31pm
About 1,000 of them spent the spring in the Audubon Park lagoons. And no, they were not zoo pets. Aparently they have been coming in larger and larger numbers to the area presumably to nest.

They are also all over the Houston area. My dad had 4 come into his deer feeder in Cypress and I saw a bunch of them during the 4ht of July weekend. Used to kill and see them in the Gueydan area where they were called Mexican Squealers. They are actually good to eat.

Maybe we will get a good population in Louisiana to supplement our bags when things get slow.
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   rpg2006
August 08, 2006 at 2:37pm
WHATS THE LIMIT ON 'EM?
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   Jose Wejebe
August 08, 2006 at 3:03pm
The black-bellies have been showing up in SW La as well. I've heard there is a large nesting colony around Lake Arthur. We've killed a few at our lease in Klondike- the limit is 6, just like teals, greys, etc. Unlike the Fulvous which nest here every year, the black-bellies seem to stay year round. I know the rice farmers and crawfishermen in that area are having a problem with them destroying the rice in flooded fields.
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   David B.
August 08, 2006 at 3:24pm
Thanks Landon for given out the secret spot! By the way, I saw the pics of the 12 you bagged last week, nice shooting. Hope they were tasty LC! Kind of upset you didn't invite me to the BBQ.
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   Engelsmung
August 08, 2006 at 5:17pm
I've seen 'em in Chicot Lake near Ville Platte, Spring Bayou near Marksville, Savanne Neuvelle near Creole, and south of Lake Arthur. They fly slow and straight, and announce their arrival far in advance, and so are easy to shoot.
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   Aaron C
August 08, 2006 at 5:41pm
The picture only had 12 in it, he really killed 24, boy were they tasty!!!!!!!!
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   avoyelles2006
August 08, 2006 at 11:11pm
Shot 4 of them in about 3 seconds last year. They sure do fly slow. Thought they were immature geese or something. A local at that lease told they weren't any good to eat, but we made a gravy with them a few grey ducks and they were very good.
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   super duck
August 08, 2006 at 11:57pm
anybody know what they eat fish or grass
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   Jose Wejebe
August 09, 2006 at 9:39am
-they are good eating. I had heard the meat was oily, and the meat did appear richer than the other ducks, but very mild tasting. They are harder to pluck. From what I've seen they eat nothing but grain. Everyone we killed had a craw full of rice.
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   MICAH M
August 09, 2006 at 10:20am
They eat grass and seeds.Never killed one with anyhting but that inside them.Hunted in Lake Arthur last year and they where as thick there as I had ever seen them.They where in the marsh by the thousands.I killed my limit in 4 shots.They are easy to kill and are great eating.They are as good as a woodduck in my opinion.
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   Duck enticer
August 09, 2007 at 8:08am
I made a comment about this in another thread recently; I have been seeing Black bellies over my house in Crowley (Acadia Parish) lately. It is not uncommon to see Fulvous, but black bellies are rare! I am hoping that this is a hint of things to come.
We use to kill the snot out of the black bellies and fulvous whistlers at Sabine. They are Stuuuuuuupid! I also killed a banded black bellied whistler that I think was banded somewhere around the Corpus Christi, TX area.
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   Duck Nasty
August 09, 2007 at 8:21am
We have been having them on our lease for about 4 yrs now. Every year its more and more. They even use some of the wood duck boxes we have out. Have a crap load of eggs. They are really stupid.
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   eastofmrgo
August 09, 2007 at 10:33am
LETS SEE, ther are plentyfull,Stupid as a dos gris, slow and straight flying(easy to shoot) , no known limit and they taste good. Heck I may have to start duck hunting again.
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   NOLA DUCK
August 09, 2007 at 10:57am
We have shot a bunch over here around Lake Charles. I still have them in the freezer so I'm not sure how they taste.
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   Jose Wejebe
August 09, 2007 at 12:24pm
Just because black-bellies aren't listed, doesn't mean there is no limit. Taken directly from DWF regulations,

"The daily bag limit on ducks is six and may include no more than four mallards (no more than two of which may be females), two canvasbacks, one pintail, three mottled ducks, one black duck, two wood ducks, two scaup and two redheads. "

If you notice, there is no mention of gadwalls, widgeon, greenwing teal, bluewing teal, ringnecks, etc. If a duck is not listed simply means you can have up to 6 as part of your daily bag limit, i.e. 4 mallards and 2 black bellies would be a limit, as would 5 black bellies and 1 pintail.- I'd like to see someone try and explain having a limit of ducks, plus additional black bellies and argue they were legal because black bellies weren't mentioned in the regs.
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   NOLA DUCK
August 09, 2007 at 12:41pm

The black bellies are included on the daily bag limits for waterfowl.
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   ampenergychevy88
August 09, 2007 at 12:58pm
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**The daily bag limit on ducks is six and may include no more than four mallards (no more than two of which may be females), two canvasbacks, one pintail, three mottled ducks, one black duck, two wood ducks, two scaup and two redheads. The daily bag limit on coots is 15. In addition to the daily bag limit for ducks, the daily bag limit for mergansers is five, only two of which may be a hooded merganser. The possession limit on ducks, coots and mergansers is twice the daily bag limit.
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   Duck enticer
August 09, 2007 at 1:02pm
The horse is dead!!!!
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   BIRD DOG
August 09, 2007 at 4:13pm
I have been seeing them around West Pearl just about every day.
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   duckduckshoot
August 09, 2007 at 5:56pm
We have them all over our lake at the lodge. They are a good looking bird and fast. Really fun to shoot

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   boug23
August 09, 2007 at 7:37pm
They are ducks - plain and simple. Count them in your bag limit just as you would a teal. As some one mentioned earlier they can appear to be immature specs for a moment.
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   NOLA DUCK
August 30, 2007 at 8:43pm

You CANNOT count them in their own seperate limit. They are ducks just like the rest of them. They count in you daily bag limit.
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   NOLA DUCK
August 31, 2007 at 11:00am

Bloodline boy you are giving out information that is wrong. They are included in your daily bag limit.
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   Guy L
August 31, 2007 at 11:03am
Hey bloodline, remind me not to hunt next to you. According to your theory, you can legally take in one hunt 6 gray ducks, 6 wigeon, 6 teal, 6 spoonbills, 6 whistling ducks, plus a combination of 6 mallards, pintail, woodduck, etc.?????? None of these have a specific limit listed.

Quoted from the LDWF website:

"The daily bag limit on ducks is six and may include no more than four mallards (no more than two of which may be females), two canvasbacks, one pintail, three mottled ducks, one black duck, two wood ducks, two scaup and two redheads."

See where it clearly says daily limit on ducks is 6 (ducks meaning all species of waterfowl), not 6 of each species. It has a key word AND (which means that OF THOSE SIX DUCKS IN YOUR LIMIT) there are specific restrictions on the particular species listed. IF you read, you will note that where the law INTENDED to allow hunters specifically more of a particular species, they wrote it out in detail.

EXAMPLE:

"In addition to the daily bag limit for ducks, the daily bag limit for mergansers is five, only two of which may be a hooded merganser."

IN ADDITION to the daily limit of ducks, a hunter may take 15 coots.

If you believe there is any way whatsoever you can legally take 18 or 24 ducks in one day you are nuts, and your game warden buddy too. Just have your bond money ready...
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   remford
August 31, 2007 at 11:15am
haha.. ya'll didn't get what he said.. he said he hunts with a federal game warden. in that case, you are allowed to shoot whatever you want and screw the limit.
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   fishhead
August 31, 2007 at 11:18am
bloodline where are you hunting?? I could use the extra $$ i get when I call Operation Game Thief!!!
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   NOLA DUCK
August 31, 2007 at 11:25am

Bloodline we all know that we can shoot 6 tree ducks in one hunt, but after those six our daily limit is full. You can't shoot 6 other ducks in the same hunt. Thats crazy.
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   Greenhead Rocker
August 31, 2007 at 11:29am
well i thought that you can take 6 b/c thats what the warden said but acording to yall thats not right
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   cjtdeerslayer
September 03, 2007 at 5:49pm
like we dont have enough things from mexico invading our lands! send them back with the rest of the imagrants!
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   Marshwalker
September 04, 2007 at 8:35am
I've been duck hunting since I was really young and never saw one of these things until a couple years ago. I was running a push boat at a grain elevator on the Mississippi River one morning and noticed a bunch of these ducks on the tops of the barges.... I drove the boat closer to check them out and couldn't for the life of me figure out what kind of duck this was.... then I started seeing more and more of them around... I was scouting in central Louisiana this weekend and saw a bunch of them up there... i guess they are here to stay... can't wait to tasted them over some rice... ha ha h a.... hopefully i'll get a shot or two at um this year.
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   S2wade
November 20, 2021 at 1:38pm
Squealer palooza in Klondike, LA. 60 of them bad boyz. D&M Waterfowl will put you on 'em.
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February 22 at 3:08am
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   drdiddy10
February 27 at 9:10pm
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   pagefitzpatrick
March 15 at 11:05am
They look most like ducks, but their lack of sexual dimorphism, relatively long-term pair bonds, and lack of complex pair-forming behavior more resembles geese and swans.
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   marosol
March 30 at 11:49pm
They let you get pretty close before they abandon their tree, close enough to startle you.
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April 12 at 10:14pm
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   meganfox19
April 21 at 2:38am
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   caughtsomefish
July 05 at 12:47pm
These are genetically closer in relation to geese and are often referred to as tropical geese. WF doesn't want to re-classify them as such because of the insane limits on geese.
The have more rods in their eyes than standard ducks and often do their feeding at night. (report I read a while back but can't seem to find the link to it)
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   ernserhjhte21
July 16 at 10:01pm
I know the rice farmers and crawfishermen in that area are having a problem with them destroying the rice in flooded fields.

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July 27 at 10:04pm
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August 19 at 8:47pm
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