Wildfowl

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Wildfowl or Waterfowl, also Waterbird, 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 reasons.

See Anatidae for classification and names.

Table of contents

1 Places to see captive and/or wild waterfowl in the United Kingdom
2 Places to see captive and/or wild waterfowl in the United States
3 See also

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 Galloway, Scotland
Castle Espie, WWT Northern Ireland
Claythorpe Watermill and Wildfowl Gardens
Lackford Wildfowl Reserve, Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve, Northumberland
London Wetlands Centre, 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

Places to see captive and/or wild waterfowl in the United States

Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Any park or reserve in or on the San Fransico Bay, California (some year-round)
Gateway National Seashore, New York City