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Wildfowl or waterfowl, also waterbirds, is the collective term for the approximately 147 species of swans, geese and ducks, classified in the order Anseriformes, family Anatidae. Wildfowl usually live on wetlands. Many species are hunted, and some are kept for ornamental purposes.See Anatidae for classification and names.
1 Places to see captive and/or wild waterfowl in the United Kingdom
- Arundel, WWT West Sussex
- Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum , East Sussex
- Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire
- Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire
- Caerlaverock, WWT Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. To the north it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England. It lies to the north of t, ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p
- Castle EspieWWT Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Castle Espie on the banks of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. It is part of the Strangford Lough Ramsar Site. Almost the entire population of Light-bellied Brent Gees, WWT Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is the smallest of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a populati
- Claythorpe Watermill and Wildfowl Gardens
- Lackford Wildfowl Reserve , Suffolk Wildlife TrustThe Suffolk Wildlife Trust is a wilfdlife trust covering the county of Suffolk, England. External link Suffolk.
- Lindisfarne National Nature ReserveThis article is about Lindisfarne, England . For other uses, see Lindisfarne (disambiguation . Lindisfarne also called Holy Island (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England, which is connected to the mainland o, NorthumberlandFor other places with this name, see Northumberland Northumberland is a county in England, on the border with Scotland. The county's largest boundaries were from the river Humber in the south, to the Forth in the North, as the kingdom of Northumbria under
- London Wetlands CentreWWT London Wetlands Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the Barnes area of London, England. Artificially constructed on the site of a former resevoir, it is now a SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest) and is the, WWT
- Martin Mere, WWT Lancashire
- Ouse Washes, WWT Cambridgeshire
- Rutland Water, Rutland
- Slimbridge, WWT Gloucestershire
- Washington, WWT Tyne and Wear
- Welney, WWT Cambridgeshire
- WWT National Wetlands Centre, Wales
