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Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

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Description:

Found in and around Attenborough Nature Reserve, Beeston, Nottingham. Pairs tend to mate for life, pure white plumage with a black nodule at the top of a pale orange beak. This subspecies of swan is protected in the UK under the Queen's law, and cannot be hunted (even though many are shot every year illegally).

Habitat:

Wetlands, marshes, rivers and canals, any clean and relatively undisturbed water environments.

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Cygnus olor (Gmelin 1789), Mute Swan

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petunia13
In Michigan, the DNR is trying to reduce this species of swan by encouraging the destruction of eggs. Anyone wishing to do so must call the DNR for verification and then will be issued a permit to destroy Mute Swan eggs. It is non native and reducing the number of native trumpeter swans. www.mi-riparian.org spring 2011 vol.46 issue 2

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