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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Black Swan

Black Swan

Cygnus atratus

Photographs © Kim Park
Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
7th May, 2006

 

Our Swan photographs

Whooper Swans other photos too	Mute Swans other photos too	Black Swan

 

 

Black Swan records in the Western Isles

Rare and accidental.

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(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

Collective nouns for Swans

A ballet, team, whiting, squadron of swans (dubious this one!)

A bank, herd, sounder, drift, lamentation of swans

A game, herd, bevy of swans

A regatta of swans (on water)

A whiteness of swans

An eyrar of swans

A wedge of swans (flying in a "V")

From WIKI

 

 

Visit Kim's web site of her photography of the Western Isles
www.bigbigskies.co.uk

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