Swan (Mute)
Mute swan: Cygnus olor
Distribution: found throughout England, Wales and Ireland. Also in a few areas across northern Europe, eastwards to Mongolia. Introduced to North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Swan Goose
Range:
North central Asia, including Siberia and northern China
Habitat:
Near water in floodplains, marshy meadows, riverbeds, steppes, even mountainous areas
Conservation Status:
Endangered
Scientific Name:
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Swan
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a large aquatic bird of both hemispheres, related to ducks and geese.
Swan A large aquatic bird living in both hemispheres, which is related to the geese and ducks. They have a long and graceful curved neck and an extremely long, convoluted trachea , which helps the bird make its far carrying calls .
Swan:
Grace
One of the best-known children's tales, The Ugly Duckling, tells of an little "duckling" who doesn't look lilke the others, who are all very surprised when he grows up to become that most elegant of birds, the swan.
Swan upping
Natural World
How an ancient tradition may have saved the swan's neck.
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Scotland
The Mute Swan is originally from Europe and Central Asia as far as China but there are feral populations that have spread to most places with a temperate climate.
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
The mute swan received its name for its silence (except when it is threatened--then it hisses).
Mute swan Cygnus olor
Identification Tips:
Length: 40 inches
Large, long-necked waterbird with short legs and a short duck-like bill
Long neck held in distinctive "S" curve at rest ...
Mute Swan
Relatives in same Genus
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Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
Black swan was an old English metaphor meaning 'that which could not exist or was impossible.' To the
English, all swans were white until news in 1697 that there were such animals living in Australia.
Black Swan
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Swans are the largest of the water fowl and among the most graceful despite their size. They are readily distinguished from geese by their elegant necks, which are often longer than their bodies.
Black Swan
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Tundra Swan Facts for Kids
These birds have white bodies and jet black feet, but some swans have been found with golden brown plumage as well. This change in color occurs if the water they float on has excess content of iron.
Tundra Swan
Cygnus columbianus (Ord)
Status Rare transient. Apart from a casual reference (Downs 1888) to "one or two instances" in earlier times, the first concrete record was of a specimen taken at Musquodoboit Harbour, Halifax County, ...
Tundra Swan Photos
Click on the thumbnail for high-resolution photos. Click here for the species description page for the Tundra Swan.
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Whooper Swan
For many years whoopers were considered almost exclusively 'hard weather' arrivals. But in recent winters impressive numbers have favoured Norfolk.
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is an old world species which has been introduced across much of the United States where it is often commonly seen in urban parks and gardens as well as many rivers and large lakes.
Mute Swan
Description
Distinguishing Features - The mute swan is a large bird, measuring 1.4 - 1.6 m and weighing 9 - 13 kg. The wingspan is 2.1 - 2.4 m. Males and females are alike in appearance, except that the male is generally larger.
Swan
Swans are large, long-necked aquatic birds with short legs and webbed feet and belongs to the family Anatidae ...
Swan eggs are the largest of any flighted bird.
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Swan parents will carry cygnets on their back while swimming, enabling the parents to regain weight lost to the rigors of mating, egg laying, incubation, simultaneous feeding, and brooding.
Swan parents will carry cygnets on their back while swimming, enabling the parents to regain weight lost to the rigors of mating, egg laying, incubation, simultaneous feeding, and brooding. This practice also provides protection for the downy cygnets.
A swan requires grit to break down food and may inadvertently take the small lead shot previously used by anglers as weights until its use was banned.
Mute Swan
Bird. One can guess from the name that mute swans don't have much to say. They do, however, hiss when threatened. Swans are the largest of the water birds. Males weigh about 11 kg (24 lb) and females about 9 kg (20 lb).
"The Swan requires five or six years to reach its perfect maturity of size and plumage, the yearling Cygnet being about one-third the magnitude of the adult, and having feathers of a deep leaden colour.
"Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) Invasive Species in the Chesapeake Watershed." Chesapeake Bay Program and Maryland Sea Grant (University System of Maryland). 26 June 2002.
Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii - Adults in flight
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Tundra Swan Behaviour
No observations regarding Tundra Swan behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Tundra Swans ...
The mute swan is one of seven swan species found world-wide and was introduced to New Zealand from 1866. It maintains a tenuous hold in the wild on wetlands in Hawke's Bay, North Canterbury and lake Ellesmere.
The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is an Australian native that has been introduced to other places, including New Zealand (where it is now considered a pest) and Sweden.
Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)
No photo of the Trumpeter Swan available.
Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)
Life History
Michigan History
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The tundra swan population is mainly threatened by human activity such as habitat loss due to development and oil spills.
Gnd Erie DSB Bird Index
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Trumpeter Swan
Cygnus buccinator
The trumpeter swan gets its name from its sonorous, vaguely French Horn sounding call. This sound is used to communicate with other swans and can carry for a great distance.
Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
Described by: Richardson (1832)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): Olor buccinator ...
Black-necked Swan
Cygnus melancoryphus
Breeding Range: Falkland Islands, Chile and Argentina
Length: 120cm.
Falklands Population: ~200 breeding pairs
World Population: unknown ...
The Trumpeter Swan is the tallest of the world's eight swan species. They range in size from 138 to 158 cm (54 to 61 in.). Males are slightly larger than females. With a wingspan of up to 2.
The trumpeter swan is roughly twice the size of the tundra swan; has a deep, sonorous call; and is either non-migratory or migrates relatively short distances.
Mute Swan
(Cygnus olor)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
2002 to 2006: Possible but not likely
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Amazing as it sounds, there are only 7 species of swan in the world. Obviously, they make a great impression, adored as they are throughout the world as the epitome of grace, the symbol of effortless beauty.
The majestic Trumpeter Swan is the largest of all North American Waterfowl. They average 1.5 m in length, weigh 11-15 kg, and have a wing span of 2.4 to 3 m. Trumpeter swans are pure white with black legs and large flat black bills.
Swan, Black Cygnus atratus Native to Australia. Also found: New Zealand, North America.
Swan Table Manners: Adult swan diets are almost entirely vegetarian. Their long necks enable the birds to reach far below the water's surface to chomp leaves and stems.
Swan Lake
Swan Lake is the only fresh water lake on the island. There is a 1/2 mile walk from the parking lot to the bird hide on the lake and it is good birding all the way.
Swan by Audubon
A coloring page based on John James Audubon's Swan.
Or paint it online.
Toucan
A rainforest bird with a huge, colorful beak.
Swan Questions
Q. I am seeing more and more swans in Massachusetts. Where did these beautiful birds come from?
Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, is a Eurasian species that occurs at lower latitudes than Whooper Swan and Bewick's Swan across Europe into southern Russia, China and the Russian Maritimes.
Whooper Swan Family
This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Photos
Born down-colored and open-eyed, the young benefit from the vigilant surveillance ...
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Sawmp Tortoise (Western)
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Swan, G., Shea, G. and Sadlier, R. (2004). A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales. Red New Holland, Sydney.
The swan-mussel has superficially a perfectly developed bilateral symmetry. The left side of the animal is seen as when removed from its shell in fig. I (r).
8 Swan Lake Wildlife Management Area (Nicollet Co.)
9. Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area (Anoka Co.)
10. Whitewater Wildlife Management Area (Winona Co.) ...
Little Swan Creek, Meriwether Lewis Site, Lewis County, Tennessee
I only saw one of these little frogs, and it was something of a trouble-maker. It mocked my attempts to get a photo by posing still for one second too few to line up a shot.
Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus. Rare in winter and fall in Tennessee Valley region, but occasional in spring. Occasional in winter and fall in other regions. Prefers shallow freshwater and brackish marshes with dense growths of underwater vegetation.
Trumpeter Swan
Cygnus buccinator (scientific)
Bat
The Order Chiroptera (scientific)
Bats are found in every state including Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The big brown bat lives in the continental U.S.
Trumpeter Swan
Cygnus buccinator
Large and elegant, these white-as-snow water birds attracted the attention of 19th century hunters, who nearly drove them extinct as they pursued them for their meat, feathers, and skins.
Trumpeter swan
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least concern; CITES: Not listed; COSEWIC: Not at Risk
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Brassenbarbe, swan-field's barbel
the bar-bus pentanzona schwanefeldi lives in the middle water-regions of your aquarium. The basin-length of the aquarium should amount to at least 120...
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A Samson Fish at the Wreck of the HMAS Swan
A Samurai Squirrelfish at North West Solitary Island
A Samurai Squirrelfish at North West Solitary Island, New South Wales
A Sand Whiting at Shiprock
A Saw-tooth Moray at Montague Island ...
 See also: Goose, Duck, Mute swan, Trumpeter, Trumpeter Swan
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