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Wildfowl
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| image:falcated.duck.arp.750pix.jpg thumb|right|250px|Falcated Duck at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Gloucestershire, England
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| Image:Manyducks.JPG thumb|250px|right|Ducks at [[Narrabeen Lake, Sydney, Australia]]
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'''Wildfowl''' or (''especially in North America'') '''waterfowl''', also '''waterbirds''', is the collective term for the approximately 147 species of swans, goose 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 as pets.
See ''' Anatidae''' for classification and names.
Places to see waterfowl in the UK
* WWT Arundel Arundel, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust WWT West Sussex
* Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum, East Sussex
* Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire
* Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire
* WWT Caerlaverock Caerlaverock, WWT Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
* WWT Castle Espie Castle Espie, WWT Northern Ireland
* Claythorpe Watermill and Wildfowl Gardens
* Lackford Wildfowl Reserve, Suffolk Wildlife Trust
* Lindisfarne Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve, Northumberland
* WWT London Wetlands Centre London Wetlands Centre, WWT
* WWT Martin Mere Martin Mere, WWT Lancashire
* Ouse Washes, WWT Cambridgeshire
* Rutland Water, Rutland
* WWT Slimbridge Slimbridge, WWT Gloucestershire
* WWT Washington Washington, WWT Tyne and Wear
* WWT Welney Welney, WWT Cambridgeshire
* WWT National Wetlands Centre, Wales
Image:Wildfowl.jpg thumb|250px|Wildfowl in Tarbes, France
Places to see waterfowl in the USA
* Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum, Virginia Beach, Virginia
*Any park or reserve in or on the San Francisco Bay, California (some year-round)
* Gateway National Seashore, New York City
* ZooMontana, Billings, Montana
*Any park in Eugene, Oregon, especially the University of Oregon and Alton Baker Park
See also
*UK
** Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
** British Waterfowl Association
*USA
** Wildfowl Trust of America
** Ducks Unlimited
** California Waterfowl Association
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