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Black-necked swan Black-necked swan at the San Francisco Zoo, USA Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Cygnus Species: C. melancoryphus Binomial name Cygnus melancoryphus (Molina, 1782) Synonyms Sthenelides melancoryphus Cygnus ...
The mute swan is closest to the Southern Hemisphere Cygnus; [31] its habits of carrying the neck curved (not straight) and the wings fluffed (not flush) as well as its bill colour and knob indicate that its closest living relative is the black swan.
The black swan was a literary or artistic image among Europeans even before their arrival in Australia. Cultural reference has been based on symbolic contrast and as a distinctive motif. The black swan's role in Australian heraldry and culture extends to the first founding of the colonies in the eighteenth century.
The gnatcatchers are mainly a soft bluish gray in color and have the long sharp bill typical of an insectivore. Many species have distinctive black head patterns (especially males) and long, regularly cocked black-and-white tails. One species has been recorded in Connecticut. Blue-gray gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
Juvenile at the Cincinnati Zoo Its black bill is useful in distinguishing the trumpeter swan from the introduced mute swan. [13] Plate 406 of the Birds of America by John James Audubon, depicting the trumpeter swan. The trumpeter swan is the largest extant species of waterfowl, and both the heaviest and longest native bird of North America.
Aside from birding and other wildlife viewing, Eastern Neck Island offers facilities and trails for hiking, boating, crabbing, fishing, hunting and biking. Eastern Neck Island Road begins at the Tundra Swan Boardwalk at the refuge's entrance and runs down the center of the island to the Wickliffe Historic Site, nearly to the southern tip.
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The mute swan was first formally named by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin as Anas olor in 1789 and was transferred by Johann Matthäus Bechstein to the new genus Cygnus in 1803. Both cygnus and olor mean "swan" in Latin; cygnus is a variant form of cycnus, borrowing from Greek κύκνος kyknos, a word of the same meaning. [5 ...