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The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a species of swan found in North America.The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 304.8 cm (6 ft 2 in to 10 ft 2 in).
Trumpeter swan: The largest North American swan. Very similar to the whooper swan (and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it), it was hunted almost to extinction but has since recovered. North America Cygnus columbianus: Tundra swan: Breeds on the Arctic tundra and winters in more temperate regions of Eurasia and North America. It consists of ...
Mute swans are protected in some areas of the U.S. by local laws, for example, in Connecticut. [61] The status of the mute swan as an introduced species in North America is disputed by the interest group "Save the Mute Swans". [62] They assert that mute swans are native to the region and therefore deserving of protection.
A record number of whooper swans have been recorded at a Lincolnshire wildlife reserve. The RSPB Frampton Marsh site near Boston saw 1,440 of the birds last week, compared with the usual figure of ...
The whooper swan (/ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/ "hooper swan"; Cygnus cygnus), also known as the common swan, is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan , and the type species for the genus Cygnus .
Coscoroba swan: Coscoroba coscoroba (Molina, 1782) 28 Black swan: Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790) 29 Black-necked swan: Cygnus melancoryphus (Molina, 1782) 30 Mute swan: Cygnus olor (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 31 Trumpeter swan: Cygnus buccinator Richardson, 1831: 32 Tundra swan: Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815) 33 Whooper swan: Cygnus cygnus (Linnaeus ...
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
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