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Whooper swan

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.

Taxonomy[edit]

Francis Willughby and John Ray's Ornithology of 1676 referred to this swan as "the Elk, Hooper, or wild Swan".[2]: 23  It was one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name of Anas cygnus.[3] The species name is from cygnus, the Latin for "swan".[4]

Whooper swan in Regent's Park, London, England

Whooper swan in Regent's Park, London, England

Whooper swans near Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland

Whooper swans near Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland

Young whooper swan at Lake Kussharo, Japan

Young whooper swan at Lake Kussharo, Japan

Young whooper swans with parents at Stawinoga ponds, Poland

Young whooper swans with parents at Stawinoga ponds, Poland

Whooper swans resting at Sunayu Onsen at Lake Kussharo, Japan

Whooper swans resting at Sunayu Onsen at Lake Kussharo, Japan

Mute swans with orange bills and whooper swans with yellow bills

Mute swans with orange bills and whooper swans with yellow bills

Cygnus cygnusMHNT

Cygnus cygnus – MHNT

Whooper swans are much admired in Europe.[8] The whooper swan has been the national bird of Finland since 1981[11][12] and is featured on the Finnish 1 euro coin. The whooper swan is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Musical utterances by whooper swans at the moment of death have been suggested as the origin of the swan song legend. The global spread of H5N1 reached the UK in April 2006 in the form of a dead whooper swan found in Scotland.[13]

RSPB

Whooper Swan Page

. Avibase.

"Cygnus cygnus"

BirdLife species factsheet for Cygnus cygnus

. Internet Bird Collection.

"Whooper swan media"

at VIREO (Drexel University)

Whooper swan photo gallery

at IUCN Red List maps

Interactive range map of Cygnus cygnus

on Xeno-canto.

Audio recordings of Whooper swan