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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...
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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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    reckless Phaethon. The most familiar European swan, the mute swan (Cygnus olor), although not actually mute, is known neither for musicality nor to vocalize...
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    its bulk. The adult trumpeter swan's plumage is entirely white. Like mute swan cygnets, the cygnets of the trumpeter swan have light grey plumage and pinkish...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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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    The Threatened Swan (Dutch: De bedreigde zwaan) is an oil painting of a mute swan made around 1650 by Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Asselijn. The work is...
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    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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  • The Royal Swans are a flock of swans of two species—the mute swan (Cygnus olor) and the black swan (C. atratus)—the original six pairs of which were a...
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    Cygnus falconeri (redirect from Giant swan)
    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...
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    The Bird of Peace (also known as Bird of Peace, Mute Swans) is a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China...
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    black-necked swan has occasionally been placed by itself in the genus Sthenelides. Its closest relatives are the black swan (C. atratus) and mute swan (C. olor)...
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  • Us". Swan Lifeline. Retrieved 2023-11-22. "Treatments". Swan Lifeline. Retrieved 2023-11-22. "Regulation of lead fishing weights results in mute swan population...
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    migration homes for mute swans, the others being Korea and the Black Sea. Grewal, Harvey and Pfister, in 2003, state that the mute swan is "a vagrant mainly...
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  • mute swans who love each other. A greedy and stubborn black swan attracts the female mute swan, who decides to go with him, rather than the male mute...
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    who regarded the swan as the most beautiful of animals, was that the mute swan is silent until its final moments of life, during which it sings the most...
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    Some bird species, such as this mute swan, do not display sexual dimorphism through their plumage, and instead can be distinguished by other physiological...
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    Evangelist in the Chancel and in the Nave, a variety of birds including a mute swan, grey heron, barn swallow and northern lapwing. Sledmere House is set...
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    newest and most current mute swan duo. In support of Iowa Department of Natural Resources efforts to re-establish the trumpeter swans in Iowa, university...
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  • Priotelus temnurus  Denmark Red squirrel (national mammal) Sciurus vulgaris Mute swan (national bird) Cygnus olor Small tortoiseshell (national butterfly) Aglais...
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    chains hang freely down. The jewel is formed as a standing or walking mute swan gorged (collared) by a gold royal crown with six fleur-de-lys tines. There...
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  • hajimei, which was approximately the size of a black swan, and A. yoshiiensis which exceeded the mute swan in both size and weight. The describing authors...
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    Andean goose Baer's pochard Black necked swan Black swan Chilean flamingo Common crane Eider Hawaiian goose Mute swan Red-breasted goose Ringed teal Spur-winged...
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    are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's...
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  • particularly tits (Paridae), mute swans and seabirds on Skomer and Skokholm. He investigated animal lead poisoning of swans from lead shot. He is renowned...
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    such as swans (Cygnus spp.) and geese during the breeding season, and are frequently driven off by these birds over territorial disputes. Mute swans (Cygnus...
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  • exception in the United Kingdom is the mute swan: The U.K. Monarch retains the right to assert ownership of unmarked mute swans, which he currently does on stretches...
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    Vašek, Honza, Svejk. Czech lion  Denmark Holger Danske, Mother Denmark Mute swan Polar bear (Greenland)  Dominican Republic Conchoprimo  Egypt Mother of...
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