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A mute swan flying over Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

Mute swan - Cygnus olor - A large water bird with a long neck, white plumage and an orange beak flies over a reed on a sunny summer day.

$L 140-160cm, WS 200-240cm.\nBreeds on freshwater lakes, generally with reed beds and along coasts. Hardy, requires only open water in winter. Nest a large mound of reed stems etc. or on coasts, a heap of seaweed. Not shy, and can act aggressively, males have territorial fights with wing splashing rushes and long slides on the water.\n\nThis is a very common Bird in our Dutch Polders where there is enough open water.$

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Mute Swans in flight with wings spread along the edge of wetlands

A closeup of a white swan gliding on a tranquil lake in a green park

Mute swan (Cygnus olor) landing in Bantam Lake, Connecticut, on a sunny day

06 november 2021, Basse Yutz, Yutz, Thionville Portes de France, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France. In the cloudy sky, a Mute Swan with outstretched wings hovers toward a pond to land.

Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks.

Mute swan taking off from a small pond in London

Even in autumn, long before thoughts arise of raising a new brood, a pair of mute swans (Cygnus olor) will vigorously defend a stretch of water that it wants to lay claim to. This can include rapid flights down river to where gangs of Canada geese are busy minding their own business. On water or on land, any swan with raised wings is in aggressive mood; and when swimming, the bow wave at the front shows that the bird is travelling at speed.

Mute swan gliding through the air on a cloudless spring sunny day

$The Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus, is a large Northern Hemisphere swan. It is the Old World counterpart of the North American Trumpeter Swan. Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido Island, Japan. Flying.\nWinter. Akan National Park.$

A winter's day on a frozen Wilts & Berks canal at Swindon, and two young swans try out their wings. Their wings are a blur as they sweep by, but a bridge across the canal forces them to land. They are two of a brood of seven, of which the other three seem to have flown the nest. The parent mute swans are still swimming in the melting waters, a little way round the bend. The Wilts & Berks canal has its mid-point at Swindon. It links the River Thames at Abingdon (Oxon) with the Kennet & Avon Canal near Melksham (Wilts). Today (2010), the waterway is located in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire only (not Berkshire) since Local Government boundary changes in the 1970s.

Bosham, Chichester Harbour, West Sussex. The beautiful harbour offers a wealth of birdlife and animal wildlife around its shores and coastline that is both photogenic and dramatic at various states of the tide.

A mute swan coming into land on water with a splash.

Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire, England, UK with a swan flying over a lake.

The Mute swan, Cygnus olor is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. Here flying over a lake in the English Garden in Munich, Germany

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