WWT Washington
54°53′56″N 1°29′02″W / 54.899°N 1.484°W / 54.899; -1.484
WWT Washington Wetland Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Washington, Tyne and Wear, North East England.
Established in 1975, its wildlife includes swans, geese, ducks, a family of Asian short clawed otters and a flock of Chilean flamingos. WWT works towards the conservation of wetlands and has a successful breeding program for some of the world's most endangered wildfowl.
Included in the site is a nature reserve with hides to watch the wildlife, a saline lagoon and dragonfly ponds in which large species of dragonfly live along with newts, frogs and toads.
The park sells bags of seed that can be used to get an up-close and personal encounter with most of their birds whilst feeding them.
Species kept at the park include:
- Andean goose
- Baer's pochard
- Black necked swan
- Black swan
- Chilean flamingo
- Common crane
- Eider
- Hawaiian goose
- Mute swan
- Red-breasted goose
- Ringed teal
- Spur-winged goose
- White-faced whistling duck
References
- ^ "ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
External links
- Official website
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- Acrotelm
- Aquatic ecosystem
- Aquatic plants
- Backswamp
- Bayou
- Beach meadow
- Blackwater river
- Blanket bog
- Bog
- Bog garden
- Brackish marsh
- Callows
- Carr
- Cataract bog
- Ciénega
- Clean Water Act
- Clearwater river
- Coastal bog
- Coniferous swamp
- Constructed wetland
- Converted wetland
- Dambo
- Drainage basin
- Estuary
- Fen
- Flark
- Flood-meadow
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Freshwater marsh
- Freshwater swamp forest
- Grass valley
- Guelta
- Halosere
- Hydrosere
- Igapó
- Ings
- Inland salt marsh
- Interdunal wetland
- Intertidal wetland
- Karst
- Kermi bog
- Kettle
- Lagg
- Mangrove
- Marsh
- Marsh gas
- Mere
- Mire
- Misse
- Moorland
- Muck
- Mudflat
- Muskeg
- Oasis
- Pakihi
- Palsa bog
- Paludification
- Palustrine wetland
- Peatland
- Plateau bog
- Pocosin
- Polygonal bog
- Pond
- Peat swamp forest
- Poor fen
- Pothole
- Quagmire
- Raised bog
- Reed bed
- Rich fen
- Riparian zone
- River delta
- Salt marsh
- Salt pannes and pools
- Shrub swamp
- Slough
- String bog
- Swamp
- Telmatology
- Tidal marsh
- Upland bog
- Water-meadow
- Wet meadow
- Will-o'-the-wisp
- Várzea forest
- Vernal pool
- Whitewater river
- Yaéré
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