Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)

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• Designs for Life adaptations and survival

  This factfile serves as a handy check sheet when observing how animals are adapted to their habitats. It also summarises and consolidates some of the other fact files.
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• Dining out - wildfowl feeding behaviour & ecology

  This factfile considers how wildfowl manage to obtain their food through specially adapted feeding behaviour, and how various wildfowl species eat food items from different parts of a water body...
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• Duck's diary a year in the life

  This factfile follows the major events of a year in a Mallard's life in a typical lowland UK wetland.
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• Ducky diets food and feeding

  This factfile considers the broad categories of food that animals eat and describes feeding adaptations to different diets.
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• Down the frog and toad introducing amphibians

  This factfile describes the major characteristics of amphibians frogs, toads and newts. It introduces the UK native amphibian species and details the Common Frog life cycle.
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• Getting around animal movement

  This factfile describes how and why animals move from place to place with emphasis on movement in water and through the air.
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• Hide and seek colour and pattern

  This factfile describes how colour and pattern are adaptations that help species' survival. Colours and patterns may help species to hide (camouflage) or be seen. The fact file considers why this is necessary for survival.
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• In the pink flamingos

  This factfile describes the characteristics of flamingos, including their specialized feeding and breeding behaviour.
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• Introducing wildfowl the ducks, geese and swans

  This factfile describes the major features of wildfowl and characteristics of the main groups ducks, geese and swans.
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• Love a duck family life

  This factfile describes the development and early life of wildfowl with reference to eggs, nests, hatching, parental care and early family life.
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• Winter breaks, summer trips migration

  This factfile looks at the reasons why animals migrate and how they manage to do it.
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• Out for a duck - threatened wildfowl

  This factfile describes why animals become rare and what WWT is doing to conserve threatened wildfowl. Short case studies are given.
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• Quack, croak, splash - communication and senses

  This factfile considers why animals need to communicate with each other, and gives examples of the ways in which sensory signals are sent between animals.
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• Wings over wetlands - wetland birds

  This factfile reviews the major characteristics of birds, and describes the adaptations of some common UK water birds.
  Filesize: 187.65 Kb (pdf)