cygnet

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  • Is it snow, or flight of cygnets resting? 

  • However, the main source of damage to swans and cygnets is poisoning caused by lead weights discarded, or lost, by fishermen.

  • The figures for the past three years are: 3,000 cygnets and 6,000 older birds.

  • The symptoms of lead poisoning are seen not only in the white swans over one year old but in the cygnets of only a few weeks.

  • The cygnet has a light grey plumage with black bill and feet.

  • Selected wild cygnets had their wings clipped and bills cut into a distinctive pattern bearing the owner's mark.

  • The cygnet is a patchy color, with brown and gray hues.

  • The cygnets hatch after about 36 days and have a grey or brown plumage.

  • The cygnets (juveniles) are grey in appearance, becoming white after the first year.

  • Visitors are sometimes allowed to hold the cygnets under supervision from the swanherds.

  • Today, only swans with cygnets are caught and ringed.

  • Also, unlike most wildfowl, both parents regularly carry the cygnets on their backs.

  • The group of two birds, presumably an adult pair, can be identified as corvids, perhaps ravens, the family of five as swans and cygnets.

  • Male swans have been known to display aggressive behavior in order to protect their families, but such behavior generally decreases as the cygnet grows older.

  • Young birds, called cygnets, are not the bright white of mature adults, and their bill is dull greyish-black, not orange, for the first year.

  • The cygnets can fly at an age of 120 to 150 days.

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