Royal Parks Wildfowl Collection,Regent's Park

Eric

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Hi folks.Just thought i'd start up a thread,for those interested in London's (free) Royal Parks Waterfowl & Wildfowl Collection,at Regent's Park (and also for St Jame's Park).

The park is the centre of the wider Royal Parks wildfowl breeding programs,and contains over 60 species,some of them feral populations,supplimented by wild birds,but it's worth a mention that they have a collection of rarer and more exotic species.

This si a rough checklist,including feral bird fed and kept at the centre.

Mute Swan
African Yellowbill
Canada Goose
Black Swan
Carolina Duck
Greylag Goose
Coscoroba Swan
Mandarin Duck
Emperor Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Bufflehead
Barnacle Goose
White Swan
European Goldeneye
Hawaiian Goose
Whistling Swan
Baikal Teal
Ringed Teal
Smew
Common Pochard
Shelduck
Lesser Snow Goose
Black Goose
Pacific White-fronted Goose
Pink-fronted Goose
Grey Goose (hybrid?)
Ruddy-headed Goose
Swan Goose
Blue-winged Teal
Chestnut Teal
Northern Pintail
Marbled Teal
Garganey
Coot
Moorhen
Cinnamon Teal
European Wigeon
Australian Shelduck
Cape Shelduck
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Shelduck
Canvasback
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
European Scaup
European Pochard
Tufted Duck
Gadwall
Australian White Eye
South African Pochard
Rosybilled Pochard
Bahama Pintail
Argentine Red Teal
Chilean Teal
Argentine Red Shoveler
Common Shoveler
New Zealand Scaup
Chiloe Wigeon
Red-billed Pintail
Bronze-winged Duck
Sharp-winged Duck
Falcated Teal
Greater Magellan Goose
Ross's Goose
Red-breasted Goose
Barrow's Goldeneye
Australian Wood Duck
Egyptian Goose
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Brazilian Teal
 
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There was a huge collection on and around the lake in the 1980's but seemed to think out or go off show in the 90's. Glad it's still going though.
 
Eric said:
Hi folks.Just thought i'd start up a thread,for those interested in London's (free) Royal Parks Waterfowl & Wildfowl Collection,at Regent's Park (and also for St Jame's Park).

The park is the centre of the wider Royal Parks wildfowl breeding programs,and contains over 60 species,some of them feral populations,supplimented by wild birds,but it's worth a mention that they have a collection of rarer and more exotic species.

This si a rough checklist,including feral bird fed and kept at the centre.

Mute Swan
African Yellowbill
Canada Goose
Black Swan
Carolina Duck
Greylag Goose
Coscoroba Swan
Mandarin Duck
Emperor Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Bufflehead
Barnacle Goose
White Swan
European Goldeneye
Hawaiian Goose
Whistling Swan
Baikal Teal
Ringed Teal
Smew
Common Pochard
Shelduck
Lesser Snow Goose
Black Goose
Pacific White-fronted Goose
Pink-fronted Goose
Grey Goose (hybrid?)
Ruddy-headed Goose
Swan Goose
Blue-winged Teal
Chestnut Teal
Northern Pintail
Marbled Teal
Garganey
Coot
Moorhen
Cinnamon Teal
European Wigeon
Australian Shelduck
Cape Shelduck
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Shelduck
Canvasback
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
European Scaup
European Pochard
Tufted Duck
Gadwall
Australian White Eye
South African Pochard
Rosybilled Pochard
Bahama Pintail
Argentine Red Teal
Chilean Teal
Argentine Red Shoveler
Common Shoveler
New Zealand Scaup
Chiloe Wigeon
Red-billed Pintail
Bronze-winged Duck
Sharp-winged Duck
Falcated Teal
Greater Magellan Goose
Ross's Goose
Red-breasted Goose
Barrow's Goldeneye
Australian Wood Duck
Egyptian Goose
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Brazilian Teal
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No such things as White Swan, Black Goose or Argentine Red Teal.
 
When I passed over the bridge in Regent's Park on the way to the Zoo before Xmas I saw no waterfowl in the closed- off area on the left where they normally are. It was raining so I did not stop to look hard but- are they still there?
 
The waterfowl are often to be seen on the lake but the breeding centre is at one end of the lake near the smaller boating lake and café. If you follow the path around you cross a bridge and from there get a view into the bring centre.
 
The smaller more ornamental (and therefore more valuable) ducks and geese always used to be confined to the fenced off canal-like stretch of water near the bridge/toilets without access on the main lake, unless they have now been released? Canada, Greylag, Egyptian Geese and Mallard, Tufted Duck, Pochard, Coot etc form the bulk of the commoner waterfowl in Regents Park.
 
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Quick question about this place, does it count as a zoo?
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I'm sure that the average visitor to the Regent's Park lake would NOT consider it to be a zoo. However, since it houses a sizeable captive collection of exotic waterfowl then, yes, I would consider it to be a zoo.

Of course, I am not suggesting that every park lake that has a few resident wild aquatic birds (mallard, coot, moorhen etc) should be counted as a zoo but I think that the Regent's Park lake is a special case.
 
Pertinax said:
The smaller more ornamental (and therefore more valuable) ducks and geese always used to be confined to the fenced off canal-like stretch of water near the bridge/toilets without access on the main lake, unless they have now been released? Canada, Greylag, Egyptian Geese and Mallard, Tufted Duck, Pochard, Coot etc form the bulk of the commoner waterfowl in Regents Park.
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And of course, all those commoner species are free-flying wild birds.
 
This thread has reminded me, The JCB factory at Rocester, Staffordshire has a country park and lake, they have around 70 species of waterfowl. I've passed this place many times but have never visited yet.
 
I have not visited or paid much attention to this part or parts of the park before,but thought that since other bird parks (i admit more specialized collections) are on zoochat,i'd thought it deserved a mention,and i had taken the bird list from a birdwatchers (who'd visited the lakes,canal) blog,so if there any discrepancies i've made,i apologize.
 
FBBird said:
And of course, all those commoner species are free-flying wild birds.
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Yes. The website above doesn't explain whether its these commoner species they are referring too with their breeding, or the other more delicate Ornamentals. As I said, I saw no sign of any of these in the fenced-off area by the bridge/cafe/toilets, which I thought was rather odd but as it was raining I didn't stop there.
 
I know this is somewhere on here but would like to start a thread on the park and it's collection.
I will be arriving on train at Marylebone station and walking to regents park.

Could someone direct me to where the collection is in the park please when I return I will put a complete list of all species seen on here.
 
Can't seem to upload a map of the park, but if you look on Google Maps, you will see that the lake in the park looks a bit like a backward 'y'.

The waterfowl collection is mainly kept on the two islands on the north-eastern arm of the 'y', though there are usually exotic birds on the small lake in Queen Mary's Gardens within the Inner Circle of the Park and there are occasionally birds in the pens and fenced off section of the north-western arm of the 'y', by the toilets.

I hope that makes sense. (There are pelicans on the lake in St. James' Park, as well...)
 
You could,should you so chose,catch the Bakerloo line from Marylebone to Regent's Park and take a stroll up through the park when the weathers pleasant enough?
 
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