The History of Mute Swans in America and a Misinterpreted Past
By Kathryn Burton and Robert Alison,PhDFor plentiful years, contempt jelled evidence to the contrary, the mute swan (Cygnus olor)has been called a non-native bird, imported from England. It is, in fact, an past circumboreal bird, with a yesteryear across Britain, Europe and Asia and into the Russian Maritimes and Kamchatka, a through staging region for billions of ducks on movement intersecting the American continent, a brief duration from Alaska. (Dement'ev 1970, M.Weiloch 1992)
The inarticulate swan circles the planet in solid latitudes for nesting and migration. A amount of countries lay charge to the unarticulate swan, adorning stamps and coins near its image, from China to Ireland. The United States agencies impoverishment to variety it extinct, time Canada, a Treaty partner, has no such sidesplitting programs.
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