BEWICKS SWAN - Cygnus Columbianus - head on, bewick's, white, head, eye, bill, beak, long neck, facing, staring, water droplets, winter visitor, Andy Purcell
BEWICKS SWAN - Cygnus Columbianus - head side on, bewick's, bird, avian, water proof feathers, white, head, eye, bill, beak, long neck, facing, staring, water droplets, winter visitor, wetlands, marshes, stubble fields, Andy Purcell
The smallest swan in the UK, the Bewick's arrives in Britain in mid-October after spending the breeding season in Siberia. It has more black on its bill than mute and whooper swans and is considerably smaller and more like a goose in shape. Increasingly threatened by loss of habitat and man's activities, and with significant numbers in the UK, it is on the Amber List. Each swan can be identified by their individual bill pattern. This one is classified as a Yellowneb. The other 2 types are Pennyface & Blackneb
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UK SCOTLAND Near Dunbar -- Whistler Swans ( cygnus columbianus ) on the beach near Dunbar on the North Sea coast of Scotland -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell | Lightroom Photos | ScotFoto. co.uk
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UK SCOTLAND Near Dunbar -- Whistler Swans ( cygnus columbianus ) on the beach near Dunbar on the North Sea coast of Scotland -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell | Lightroom Photos | ScotFoto. co.uk
UK SCOTLAND Near Dunbar -- Whistler Swans ( cygnus columbianus ) on the beach near Dunbar on the North Sea coast of Scotland -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell | Lightroom Photos | ScotFoto. co.uk
UK SCOTLAND Near Dunbar -- The beach south of Dunbar on the North Sea coast of Scotland -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell | Lightroom Photos | ScotFoto.co.uk
From the Gentleman's magazine 1819 an engraving of Thomas Bewick by T A Kidd after Miss Kirkley entitled "Restorer of the art of engraving on wood". wood-engraving, printer, artist, naturalist, woodcuts, Newcastle, portrait,
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Whooper Swans, Cygnus cygnus, winter visitor lowland farmland near coast, feeds on winter cereals, stubble fields potatoes and grass UK population as many as 7, 000 with similar number in Ireland, Welney, the Wash and the Severn estuary important areas
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Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus, pair, large swans, white, black and yellow beak, long elegant necks, late afternoon, setting sun, red reflections on ripples, two Common coot, winter in UK, migrate, movements, Iceland, traditional sites, Martin Mere, Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust, Lancashire
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Two swans on water coloured red by refelactions of setting sun, Ormskirk, Lancashire.
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Grey Plover, Pluvialis squatorola, medium large wader, large black eye, short stout bill, winter plumage, long legs, breeds n low tundra, winters around coasts, on muddy estuaries such as the Dee, the Ribble and The Wash
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Radio transmitter, monitoring movements, migration, research, antenna, small white box, winter in the UK, breed on pools in tundra of northern Europe and Iceland, Martin Mere, Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust
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Small transmitter attached to the back of a wintering Whooper Swan in Lancashire.
