- 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...
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mute swan, has been
introduced to
North America,
Australia and New Zealand.
Several species are migratory,
either wholly or
partly so. The
mute swan is...
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Swan upping is an
annual ceremony in
England in
which mute swans on the
River Thames are
rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. By prerogative...
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waterfowl ever found, as one
mute swan was
found to
weigh a m****ive 23 kg (51 lb), but it was
unclear whether the
latter swan was
still capable of flight...
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reckless Phaethon. The most
familiar European swan, the
mute swan (Cygnus olor),
although not
actually mute, is
known neither for
musicality nor to vocalize...
- the
Swans". The
Swan was
fined £1000 for the incident.
Cyril appeared as the pet of the
Emperor of China, in a
British pantomime of Aladdin. As a
mute swan...
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hybrid between a
swan and a goose.
Examples of
hybrids include crosses between the
mute swan and
domestic goose, as well as the
black swan and
Canadian goose...
- The
swan dress is a
dress resembling a
mute swan designed by
Marjan Pejoski and worn by the
Icelandic artist Björk at the 73rd
Academy Awards on March...
- of the
whistling swan take
about 60–75 days to fledge—twice as fast as
those of the
mute swan for example—while
those of Bewick's
swan,
about which little...
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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...
