Around here black swans are nearly always loners. There was one on the river at Twickenham for ages, and then we had one for a while at Walton Bridge. I found this one at Black Pond in Esher Common. Maybe he could read? Black swans are not native to the UK, the vast majority of our native swans are white mute swans, but in winter we get visitors of Whooper Swans from Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia. Black swans originate from Australia, but they have been introduced as ornamental water-birds here. Some have obviously escaped and tend to live with white swans, but I wonder are they lonely?
Thank you to Cee Neuner for this challenge 🙂
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Don’t know if it’s lonely or not but it seems quite content admiring its reflection.
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I agree, but swans usually have partners for life, yet I never see 2 black ones together
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You captured Alone is very beautiful!!! Thanks for playing this week!! See you next week!
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Thank you 🙂
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I have never seen a black swan except in photos.
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I looked them up and apparently there are only a few feral birds… They were counted in 2004 and the figure was 46 although I do wonder how accurate that figure could be?
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do they ever mate with the white swans? I am thinking of offspring coloured like Magpies. Did you know that Magpies in Australia have their colour in a reverse way to ours.
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No I didn’t! I will try and photograph some when I am there. I don’t think they mate with white swans, there are a few different breeds of white swan and they don’t cross breed so I doubt the black ones do…. but I don’t know xxx
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he sure is a beauty…we have them here and sadly every year they actually ‘cull’ these beautiful birds
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That’s hard to believe!! Such stunning animals They actually come from Australia, but I thought they were protected species?
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Nothing seems to be protected here. Even the Maui Dolphins of which there are only 55 left have to come second to making money.
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That’s crazy! I was under the impression that New Zealanders were better at conservation than that!
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Not any more…NZ is all about the $$$$$$$ and hang the conservation issues these days.
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😦
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Although they may cull them in NZ because they are not native… the New Zealand Black Swan was apparently hunted to extinction 😦
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That is NZ for you…we no longer seem to have a government that gives a crap about any species…except if they make money. 😦
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