Mute Swan
（英文名：Mute Swan，学名：Cygnus olor），是雁形目鸭科天鹅属的鸟类。又名: 赤嘴天鹅。北半球体型最大的水鸟之一，通体雪白，喙呈橙红色，基部具黑色疣状突起。原产于欧洲至西亚，后被引入北美、日本、新西兰等地。因其优雅外形与“终身伴侣”习性，在欧洲文化中象征爱情与高贵，但亦因过度啃食水生植被、驱逐本土水禽而被部分地区列为入侵种加以控制。
Mute Swan
130 - 160 cm. A very large, wholly white swan; wings often raised in heraldic manner; bill orange with black base and knob; in male, knob becomes larger in spring; legs and feet dark grey. Immature: brownish grey with knobless grey-pink bill. Flight strong with singing of wings.
Eulo From Cunnamulla head west towards Eulo and after 40 km or so start looking out for Bourke's Parrot (which come in to drink in the evening at Eulo Bore, about 50 km west of Cunnamulla), White-browed Treecreeper, Spotted Bowerbird, Grey-headed Honeyeater, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Crested Bellbird, Hall's Babbler, Chestnut-crowned Babbler, Chestnut-breasted Quail-Thrush (on stony ridges), and the possibility of Plum-headed Finch. Eulo: 28.160278S 145.0475E
- Voice
- Hisses; rarely-heard trumpet.
- Habitat
- Ornamental lakes, rivers, possibly sheltered sea-coasts as in Europe.
- Nest
- Large heap of vegetation; on islands or among vegetation in shallows.
- Eggs
- 3-7 or more; green-white, larger than Black Swan's.
- Range & Status
- : Introduced from Europe to parts of se. and sw. Aust. and Tas.; most failed. Small breeding colonies on Northam Weir on Avon R. at Northam (WA) and reportedly at L. Leake (Tas.). Sedentary. Also introduced and established, NZ.
