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Thursday, June 30, 2011

A natural Black Swan



A natural Black Swan 
A feathered black bird’s Black Swans, looks are primarily black with white flight feathers.
The bill is bright red, with a pale bar and tip; and legs and feet are grayish-black. Cobs are slightly larger than pens (females), with a longer and straighter bill. Cygnets (immature birds) are a grayish-brown with pale-edged feathers. 
A natural Black Swan measures between 110 and 142 cm in length and weighs 3.7–9 kg. Its wing span is between 1.6 and 2 meters.
The neck is long (relatively the longest neck among the swans) and curved in an "S"-shape.

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The Black Swan musical and far reaching bugle-like sound, called either on the water or in flight.
The Black Swan is Australian bird, although in poor light and at long range it may be confused with a Magpie Goose in flight.
The Black Swan is common in the wetlands of south western and eastern Australia and adjacent coastal islands. In the south west the range ecompasses an area between North West Cape,

The Black Swan's preferred habitat extends across fresh, brackish and salt water lakes, swamps and rivers.
The Black Swans will migrate to these areas to nest and raise their young.

 A colony of Black Swans in Dawlish, Devon has become so well associated with the town that the bird has been the town's emblem for forty years.

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