Angola, Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Costa Rica, Côte dIvoire, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (E) (B), Réunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay (B), Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Chile, Seychelles, Spain.
Tropical America from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina and Uruguay. Africa south of Sahara from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to South Africa. Madagascar and Comoro Is.
Population
Estimated population is 1,700,000 - 2,800,000 (2010).
White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) [XC435976]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Piracicaba, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (flight call)
White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) [XC398022]
by George Vlad from dam west of Chisamba, Central province, Zambia (call)
Nest
A depression or low construction of vegetation placed over or at varying distances from water, usually in stands of dense vegetation on dry ground or in reedbeds, occasionally also in open crevices in trees. In solitary pairs with nests about 75 m apart or loose colonies or small groups.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet