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The mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurasia , and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America, home to the largest populations outside of its native range, with additional smaller introductions in Australasia ...
One species, the mute swan, has been introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand. [16] Several species are migratory, either wholly or partly so. The mute swan is a partial migrant, being resident over areas of Western Europe but wholly migratory in Eastern Europe and Asia.
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.
Thalassornis, white-backed duck Mute swan; Subfamily: Anserinae, swans and geese (3–7 extant genera with 25–30 living species, mainly cool temperate Northern Hemisphere, but also some Southern Hemisphere species, with the swans in one genus [two genera in some treatments], and the geese in three
Cygnus falconeri is an extinct, very large swan known from Middle Pleistocene-aged deposits from Malta and Sicily. Its dimensions are described as exceeding those of the living mute swan by one-third, [2] which would give a bill-to-tail length of about 190–210 cm (75–83 in) (based on 145–160 cm for C. olor [3]). By comparison to the bones ...
The mute swan is the national bird of Denmark.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Denmark.The avifauna of Denmark included a total of 504 species recorded in the wild by according to the Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (DOF; Danish Ornithological Society)'s DK listen [1] (this list uses only Danish names, with the English names below abstracted from the DOF's Western Palaearctic list ...
"After years of management and monitoring, trumpeter swan populations have exceeded the division's goals for the species' recovery." Trumpeter swans once faced extinction, according to an ODNR ...
It is the home of the mute swan (pictured), native to temperate regions of Europe and western Asia, in time of moult arriving in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds. [6] [7] [8] Many species of wild animals live in the forest, among them: deer, elk, moose, wild boar, hare, fox and recently reintroduced lynx.