The Spotted Whistling Duck has a reddish-brown breast with fine dark markings and reddish-brown scaling on its white flanks. It lives in wetlands and feeds on grass seeds and snails at twilight and night.
Its lower neck and breast are reddish brown with fine dark markings. The white flanks have reddish-brown scaling, and the upperparts and tail are dark brown.
It uses wetlands, lakes, ponds, rivers, and mangroves. It feeds at twilight and night on grass seeds and snails and nests in tree hollows.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.