Bird Sightings: Mute Swan

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Mute Swan

Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

Gaelic: Eala-bhan

Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
South Uist - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
22nd April, 2006

Our swan phototographs :

mute swan

mute swan
with cygnets

mute swan
cygnets

mute swans
with cygnets

black swan

whooper swan
(other photos too)

Some interesting 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

Other local bird photographs

Debbie's online photo album

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