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 Photos
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Tundra swan Cygnus columbianus
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Length: 36 inches Wingspan: 85 inches
Large, long-necked waterbird with short legs and a short duck-like bill
Long neck held straight up with a kink at base ...
Tundra Swans breed in low densities close to coastal areas from the Aleutian Islands north and east to Baffin Island, Canada. This swan also breeds around Canada's Hudson Bay.
Tundra Swan Range
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Type: Bird Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 20 years Size: Body, 3.9 to 4.8 ft (1.2 to 1.5 m); wingspan, 5.5 ft (1.7 m) Weight: 8.4 to 23.
Tundra Swan Behaviour
No observations regarding Tundra Swan behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Tundra Swans ...
The Tundra Swan is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order. The majority of these are waterfowl such as ducks, geese, screamers and swans.
Tundra Swan
(Cygnus columbianus)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a rare migrant, usually in small numbers.
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 swans are all white with black feet and a black bill. They hold their neck straight up. The voice of the tundra swan is soft and song-like. They are massive birds and lay very large eggs.
Can be Seen: ...
Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii - Adults in flight
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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.
Tundra Swan
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Blue-winged Teal
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Page 1: Tundra Swans (3 photos), Spotted Towhee (2 photos), Red-tailed Hawk and Peregrine Falcon (2 photos), Western Bluebird (3 photos), (December 2008).
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Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus
Swan Goose, Anser cygnoides
Bean Goose, Anser fabalis
Greater White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons
Lesser White-fronted Goose, Anser erythropus
Greylag Goose, Anser anser
Bar-headed Goose, Anser indicus ...
But there are only 7 species, and only 2 indigenous to North America (remember, the Mute Swan is an invasive species.) The Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus, is one of these North American natives, with a population of roughly 200,000.
The third species, the tundra swan, passes through our state on their migration routes. Shortly after ice thaws, hundreds to sometimes thousands of tundra swans can be seen resting in Great Lakes marshes.
The white plumage of Snow Geese and Tundra Swans sometimes takes on a dirty, rusty-brown appearance. The birds aren't actually dirty but do show rust-colored highlights from foraging in the iron rich environments of the far north.
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.
Also considered a subspecies of the Tundra Swan.
Photographed by 1, 2) Dick Daniels at Pine Grove Waterfowl Park, Virginia 3, 4, 5) Dick in North Carolina
6) Alan D Wilson at Deep Bay Harbour, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia ...
The Whooper Swan and Tundra Swan are wholly migratory, and the Trumpeter Swans are almost entirely migratory.
AMERICAN SWAN.
[Tundra Swan.]
CYGNUS AMERICANUS, Sharpless.
[Cygnus columbianus.] ...
I saw one pair of Tundra Swans. Land birds included: Gray Jay, Black-billed Magpie,Yellow Warbler, Wilson's Warbler.There were female moose along the road and high on the mountain Dall Sheep.
2001 when a court ruled that mute swans must be granted federal protection under the same Migratory Bird Treaty that protects native swans, the tundra swan, ...
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus). Abundant at Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 11/5/04.
American Wigeon (Anas americana). An aberrant bird at Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 10/17/03.
Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) - Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 1/18/04 ...
The reserves of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Britain are important for Bewick's and Whooper Swans. It is often considered a subspecies of C. columbianus, creating the species Tundra Swan.
closely related to Southern Hemisphere swans such as the Black Swan, Cygnus atratus and the Black-necked Swan, C. melanocorypha than the other Northern Hemisphere swans such as the Trumpeter, C. buccinator, the Whooper, C. cygnus and the Tundra Swan, ...
Ross' Goose (Chen rossii)
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens)
Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus)
White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca)
Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) ...
 See also: Swan, Trumpeter, Trumpeter Swan, Duck, Geese
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