Duck people, what are these?

EDIT: They're Black-bellied Whistling Ducks.... Now, what kind of housing? Any guess on gender? Found out what they were via this pic

 

 

The local 'duck pond' at the college has two of these. ( Plus countless scovies, pekin, rouen, and cayuga... )

 

I have permission from the park to catch and take whatever I want, and I want these! What in the world are they? The  'female' has one of the worst wings I've ever seen, but I haven't been able to get my hands on her yet to find out why. She doesn't swim, she doesn't fly, she just wades. The 'male' flies up into trees ( never far from her ) and will wade out a little bit furthur than the 'female'.

 

I've been taming them for just over a year and I know for a fact I could approach this pair with a net. Now I just need to bring a cage with me as well to take them home.

 

Anyway, here are some bad cell phone pics. Park guy says they're whistling something or others.

 

Female with the bad wing.

 

They have mostly black underbellies with orange up front and speckles in the back.

 

They make a whistling sound. Very pretty.

 

 

Female on the left, male on the right?

 

 

 

Male in a tree. You can kind of see where his chest changes from orange to black. 

Edited by orumpoultry - 5/6/12 at 5:30am

I'm mainly curious to know what these two are. It would be nice to have these two beauties, but the park is over run by Muscovy's not BB Whistling Ducks... I'm still getting numbers, but yesterday I counted over 60 of these before I got distracted and noticed one of the hens was missing... A pretty blue. Took her ducklings and, in the process, got some pics on these two.

 

Everything I'm reading up on says they're native wildlife, which means I probably wont be able to touch them. Even to check that one's wing to see what's going on with it. 

 

Mum - they are content. I'd rather just see if there's any way to help the hen with her wing... No need in getting fined for illegal housing!

 

-   Got the number to the local game warden. Going to keep calling around and get this little lady some help. I think it's a bad break, and it just hangs there. But idk. I know I said I would LOVE to have them. But again, if the game warden says no... I'm NOT getting fined. 

I was forced to get in contact with the Game Warden last night ( someone hit a deer and left her suffering on the road ) and he gave me his number to call today about getting in touch with a wildlife rehab. Also, had a whole paragraph on this pair and how I've seen them interacting the past two years... Computer crashed and it's GONE. - Anywho, she has been like this for longer than I'd like. I know for a fact when I left for Florida in July 2011 she was showing signs of an injury. When I returned, I found her like this. It's not healing, in fact it's getting worse.

Update - the rescue/rehab place will be by to look at and or pick up this pair sometime this week. 

 

If I'm able to go when they go, I will try to take my good camera and get some pictures close up of the female.