Wildfowl
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see waterfowl.
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Waterfowl - common term for members of the order Anseriformes, wild, aquatic, typically freshwater birds including ducks, geese, and screamers.
The 'wildfowl' are medium to large birds with rather long or very long necks, mostly short, broad bills, short legs and the front three toes joined by webs.
Despite wildfowling, ringing recoveries reveal individual pintail can be long-lived.
Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds or galliforms. "Wildfowl" or just "fowl" are also often used for Galliformes, but usually these terms also refer to waterfowl (Anseriformes), ...
Researchers in Syria last winter found significant numbers of various endangered species of birds, as well as internationally important numbers of wintering wildfowl. (more) ...
Shockingly, surveys have shown that around half of the total wintering wildfowl of the middle and lower basins of the Yangtze River were killed each year by hunters through netting, shooting and poisoning.
Britain's best known bird collections are the various centres of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust which keep the best and most complete collections of waterfowl in the world.
These outbreaks occurred after H5N1 was detected in poultry in Russia and wildfowl in south-west Russia in the summer of 2005.
In some parts of its range it is known to wildfowlers as a "poacher" or "baldpate.
Webbed for Water: Ducks are classified in the group called waterfowl or wildfowl. Ducks and other waterfowl members are made for the water.
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust: whooper swan satellite tracking (whooper.wwt.org.uk)
ARKive: Images of Life on Earth (arkive.org)
Bird Guides: fact file and sightings (birdguides.com)
Birdlife International: fact sheet (birdlife.org) ...
Scott, P. A Coloured Key of the Wildfowl of the World. Slimbridge, England. The Wildfowl Trust. 1988.
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Mallards are the most numerous wildfowl in Britain and can be found almost anywhere there is water, so it is not surprising that most people are familiar with it.
The reserves of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Britain are important for Bewick's and Whooper Swans. It is often considered a subspecies of C. columbianus, creating the species Tundra Swan.
A few birds straggle into western Europe during the winter particularly into England and the Netherlands but in these areas there is also the possibility that a sighted bird is an escape from a wildfowl collection.
It raids poultry and wildfowl breeding sites and it eats corn and other crops. In more populated areas, a racoon will frequently knock over trash cans while scavenging for food, using its hands as well as monkeys do.
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Usually, the smaller, long-legged waterbirds.
Wattle Bare skin, often coloured, on part of head.
Wildfowl Ducks and geese.
Wing-span Length from one wing tip to the other when fully extended.
 See also: Geese, Duck, Goose, Waterfowl, Swan
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