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The whooper swan (/ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/ "hooper swan"; Cygnus cygnus), also known as the common swan, is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan , and the type species for the genus Cygnus .
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Whooper swan: Breeds in Iceland and subarctic Europe and Asia, migrating to temperate Europe and Asia in winter Cygnus buccinator: Trumpeter swan: The largest North American swan. Very similar to the whooper swan (and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it), it was hunted almost to extinction but has since recovered. North America Cygnus ...
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In some birds (e.g. the whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus, the white spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia, the whooping crane, Grus americana, and the helmeted curassow, Pauxi pauxi) the trachea, which some cranes can be 1.5 m long, [59] is coiled back and forth within the body, drastically increasing the dead space ventilation. [59]
†Cygnus falconeri Parker 1865 sensu Livezey 1997a (Giant Maltese swan) †Cygnus verae Boev 2000; Cygnus buccinator Richardson 1831 (trumpeter swan) LC; Cygnus cygnus (Linnaeus 1758) (whooper swan) LC; Cygnus columbianus (Ord 1815) (tundra swan) LC. C. c. bewickii (Yarrel 1830) sensu Carboneras 1992 (Bewick's Swan) C. c. columbianus (Ord 1815 ...
English: Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus, Swallow Pond, Northumberland. Three birds on spring migration north to Iceland, stopping for a few hours rest. Three birds on spring migration north to Iceland, stopping for a few hours rest.