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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.
Entirely white with black legs and bright orange bill. Eats aquatic vegetation in city-park ponds, as well as rivers, lakes, and estuaries. Older juveniles can have extensive dusky-brownish highlights on the body. Young juveniles are fluffy and entirely pale gray with black bills and legs.
The exotic Mute Swan is the elegant bird of Russian ballets and European fairy tales. This swan swims with its long neck curved into an S and often holds its wings raised slightly above its back. Although they’re numerous and familiar in city parks and in bays and lakes in the Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, and Midatlantic, Mute ...
Huge white bird with long neck, reddish-orange bill, and black face. Adults have a black knob on top of the bill. Immatures are dusky brown with a gray bill. Native to northern Europe and Asia, but introduced in many regions, where it is now common on ponds, lakes, and calm coastal waters.
The Mute swan (Cygnus olor) is known as an integral feature of urban parks as well as most of the waterways in our regions. But originally this beautiful white bird was a wild animal, not always with compatible behavior and habits for life in city parks. It is also amongst the heaviest of the world's flying birds. Diurnal. He.
The large size and bright white plumage make adult Mute Swans unmistakeable. They can be separated from the wintering swan species by their orange bill (in contrast to the yellow and black bills of Whooper and Bewick's Swans).
The Mute Swan is a majestic waterbird with pure white plumage, a long S-shaped neck, and a distinctive orange bill with a black base and knob. Their legs are black with webbed feet. Males (cobs) are generally larger than females (pens) and have a more prominent black knob at the base of the bill.
