White Swan

White as snow, with shiny, transparent, small eyes and a black nose and black paws, with a long, flexible neck, and beautiful, it is indescribably beautiful when floating peacefully between green reeds on a dark blue smooth surface of the water. But his movements are full of delights: whether he starts drinking and scooping water nose, raise your head up and pull your neck; Will the swim, dive and splash around with their powerful wings, throwing away the water splashing, sliding away with his furry body; Will the plume then, free and easy dugoyu throwing back his snow-white neck, straightening and cleaning his nose on the back, sides and tail crumpled mess and feathers; dismiss the wings through the air like a long scythe sail and start as the nose to touch it every pen, airing and drying it in the sun - all beautifully and wonderfully in it. "So I wrote the swan Russian writer Sergey Aksakov. He describes the mute swan. Himself, perhaps, of all the beautiful swans. It is no accident in Russia has long been a symbol of beauty Swan, at least remember the expression "swan neck", "floats like a swan,"

"White Swan" and so on. Remember how many fairy tales and legends associated with these birds. Very much they liked and loved by the people for their spectacular beauty!By way of life all swans are similar to each other. They differ from one another in size, color plumage, sometimes spread.

Whooper swan and mute swan - large birds. Representatives of both species - a beautiful, majestic, snow-white bird, great swimmers, excellent flyers. To distinguish from the mute swan whooper is difficult, but possible.Firstly, by making sounds. Whooper a loud trumpet, clearly audible over long distances sounds. According to him a flock of Whooper on migration can be distinguished from the pack Shipunov. Mute on the fly never blow.But they know how to sizzle when something irritated. Because of this, and got its name. 

There are signs, which can be distinguished from the mute swan whooper. Swimming, whooper always keeps his beautiful long neck straight beak horizontally. In mute swan neck is thicker than the whooper swan and this often bends her head and beak and holds more inclined towards the water. If you look near the mute swan, can be seen on his forehead a large build-up. In whooper such "bumps" no. 
Whooper Swan breeds in the northern half of Eurasia - from Iceland, Scotland and Scandinavia in the west to Kamchatka and Sakhalin Island in the east. He likes to settle on big lakes, on the banks of heavily overgrown with reeds and other aquatic coastal vegetation. Sometimes settles on the coast, if there is a reed, interspersed with open stretches; Deaf to the overgrown forest lakes. And if not to disturb him, and can settle on a pond near human habitation. 
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