Skip to main content

Auxiliary menu

  • Home
  • Contact
  • Blogs
  • News
  • Jobs
  • Shop

Follow us

  • Flickr
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X
  • Youtube
Home

Main navigation

  • What we do
    Banovallum House

    Robert Enderby

    Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is a voluntary charitable organisation which cares for Lincolnshire's wildlife and countryside. Founded in 1948, the Trust covers the whole of the historic county of Lincolnshire - from the Humber to the Wash.

    Meet the team

    • About us
      • News
      • Blogs
      • Podcast
      • Meet the team
      • Publications
      • Our story
      • Ted Smith - our Founder
      • Partners & supporters
    • Caring for wild places
    • Inspiring people
    • Conservation projects
      • Wilder Humber
      • Fens East Peat Partnership
      • Bourne North Fen
      • Green Investment in Greater Lincolnshire
      • Ancholme Catchment Partnership
      • Dynamic Dunescapes
      • Love Lincs Plants
      • Lincolnshire's road verges
    • Planning advice
    • Campaign for nature
    • Lincolnshire Environmental Awards 2025
  • Wildlife
    Minke Whale

    Eleanor Stone

    Fact of the month

    Minke whale vocalisations can reach 150 decibels - that’s the same as a jet plane taking off!
    Find out more about minke whales below.

    Minke whales

    • Species
    • Habitats
    • Wildlife gardening
      • Create a home for wildlife
      • Build a bird nest box
      • Make an air bee n' bee
      • Set up a nectar café
      • Build a wildlife pond
      • Go wild for worms
      • Wildflower meadow hub
    • Caring for wildlife
    • How to identify
      • Animal droppings
      • Animal tracks
      • Coastal creatures
      • Bumblebees
      • Caterpillars
      • Swifts, swallows and martins
      • Birds of prey
      • Snakes
      • Owls
    • Lincolnshire through the seasons
    • Reptile and amphibian survey
  • Get involved
    Poplar hawk-moth

    Lizzie Wilberforce

    Take our quiz below to find out which UK moth you are. Will you be an energetic hummingbird hawk-moth, or maybe a humble but marvellous peppered moth...

    Take the quiz!
    • Visit a nature reserve
      • Our top reserves
        • Whisby Nature Park
        • Gibraltar Point
        • Far Ings
        • Snipe Dales
        • Willow Tree Fen
        • Donna Nook
        • Woodhall Spa Airfield
        • Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park
      • Our Education Centres
        • Whisby Education Centre
        • Gibraltar Point Education Centre
        • Far Ings Education Centre
      • Visitor information
        • Accessibility
        • Dog walkers
        • Group visits
        • Be tick aware
        • Good fieldcraft
      • A-Z of nature reserves
      • Roadside Nature Reserves
    • Area Groups
    • For families
      • Nature clubs
      • Family activities
      • Wild Houses of Lincolnshire quiz
      • Which moth are you quiz
    • Volunteer
      • Volunteer vacancies
    • Fundraise
    • In your community
    • Take action for wildlife
    • Take action for climate change
  • What's on
  • Join us
  • Donate

You are here:

  1. Home
  2. Wildlife Explorer
  3. Birds
  4. Waterfowl

Species

Geoff Trinder

Protect the species you love

£

Waterfowl

A drake red-crested pochard swimming. It's a striking duck with a black breast, brown back and head, fiery orange crown and bright coral red beak.

Red-crested pochard

A male long-tailed duck drifting in front of the stone wall of a harbour

Long-tailed duck

Egyptian goose

Egyptian goose

Smew (male)

Smew

Drake garganey

Garganey

Goosander female

Goosander

Red-breasted Merganser female

Red-breasted merganser

Common scoter female

Common scoter

Eider

Eider

Two dark-bellied brent geese standing in a pool of water

Brent goose

Mute Swan

Mute swan

Shelduck

Shelduck

Bewick's Swan

Bewick's swan

Mandarin Duck

Mandarin duck

Whooper Swan

Whooper swan

Mallard

Mallard

A greylag goose swimming, reflected in the water

Greylag goose

Gadwall

Gadwall

White-fronted Goose

White-fronted goose

A drake pintail swimming across a glassy lake, leaving ripples in its wake

Pintail

Pink-footed Goose

Pink-footed goose

Shoveler

Shoveler

A flock of Canada geese standing on a frozen lake on a misty morning

Canada goose

A pair of wigeon stand on a muddy shore

Wigeon

Barnacle Goose

Barnacle goose

Teal

Teal

Pochard

Pochard

Tufted Duck

Tufted duck

Goldeneye

Goldeneye

Footer decal

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Banovallum House

Manor House Street

Horncastle

Lincolnshire

LN9 5HF

  • Contact us (https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/contact)
  • Membership (https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/support-us)
  • Donate (https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/support-us/donate)
  • Volunteer (https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer)
Fundraising regulator
Home

Footer

  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Safeguarding Commitment Statement
  • Publications

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust: Nature conservation from the Humber to the Wash. Registered charity number 218895.