{"id":3025,"date":"2018-01-29T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:44:29","slug":"mute-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2018\/01\/29\/mute-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mute swan is native to Eurasia, but wild populations exist on other continents as well.
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Mute swans (Cygnus olor<\/em>), in Kensington Gardens<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

They are called mute swans because they tend to make a lot less noise than other waterfowl.<\/p>\n

Mute swans are not uniformly common all over Europe, for example I rarely encounter them. These pictures were taken when I have spent half a day in London<\/a>, England, and I took a walk in Kensington Gardens<\/a> where the pond was filled with swans and ducks.<\/p>\n

Like ducks and geese, mute swans eat pretty much everything they can catch in the water, animals and plants alike.<\/p>\n

Mute swans like most other swans, are edible to humans.<\/p>\n\"Mute<\/a>\n

Young mute swans may have grayish or whitish down but adult mute swans are always white. Interestingly their closest relatives are the black swans<\/a> in Australia, not the other white swans on the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Further Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nMute Swan, Life History, All About Birds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a>.
\nMute Swan – Cygnus olor<\/em><\/a>.
\nMute swan videos, photos and facts – Cygnus olor<\/em><\/a> on Arkive.
\nMute swan<\/a> on Animal Diversity Web.
\nMute swan<\/a> on Wikipedia.
\nHunting and Cooking Swans<\/a>.
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