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MUTE SWAN FACTS |
Description
The Mute Swan is native to Europe and Asia and was been introduced to Australia in nineteenth century. It is a large white bird with orange bill with black knob at the base. It can grow to 160 cm long with wing span up to 240 cm. Males are larger than females. Juveniles are greyish brown with paler bill and no knob on bill.
Size
150 cm
Habitat
lakes
Food
plants and small water creatures
Breeding
The nest is a large mounds that of vegetation in shallow water on an islands or at the edge of a lake.
Range
The Mute Swan is native to Europe and Asia and has been introduced to Australia. There is a wild colony on Avon River in Western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Anseriformes | | Family: | Anatidae | | Genus: | Cygnus | | Species: | olor | | Common Name: | Mute Swan |
Relatives in same Genus
Black Swan (C. atratus)
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