Below are a list of British Ducks that are resident breeders, and winter visitors to the UK.
The Greater Scaup is the rarest breeding duck in the UK.
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The Garganey is a Summer breeding visitor and the Long-tailed Duck is an occasional breeding duck:
The Velvet Scoter and the Smew are winter visitors but do not breed in the UK:
The Mandarin and the Ruddy Duck have been introduced into the UK. The Ruddy Duck was brought to the UK from North America in the 1940s to enhance wildfowl collections but escapees quickly established themselves in Great Britain and spread widely across Europe. Ruddy Ducks will interbreed with the endangered White-headed Duck of southern Europe which has caused concern and resulted in a cull of this duck:
Because of the position of Britain it receives a number of vagrant ducks from Asia and North America. These ducks are not resident to the UK but can occasionally be seen:
American Wigeon,
Green-winged Teal,
American Black Duck,
Blue-winged Teal,
Baikal Teal,
Red-crested Pochard,
Canvasback,
Redhead,
Ring-necked Duck,
Ferruginous Duck,
Lesser Scaup,
King Eider,
Steller's Eider,
Harlequin Duck,
Black Scoter,
Surf Scoter,
White-winged Scoter,
Bufflehead,
Barrow's Goldeneye, and
Hooded Merganser.
Click on the Duck photographs to enlarge them or if you click on the Duck's name then it will take you to another page with information, more photos, and sometimes a video of that particular Duck.