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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Black Swan

Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790)

Le Cygne noir (Cygnus atratus) est une espèce de cygnes de la famille des Anatidae originaire d'Australie qui doit son nom à la coloration en grande partie noire de son plumage. Il fut décrit scientifiquement pour la première fois en 1790 par John Latham. Il figure sur le drapeau et sur l'emblème de l'Australie-Occidentale.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/11th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
5.62 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black Swan

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.62 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female5.1 kgWikidataQ131044
  • Male6.2 kgWikidataQ131044

Figures vary

  • 5.65 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.11 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.46 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.09 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black Swan yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusCygnus
  7. ›speciesCygnus atratus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. subfamilyAnserinae
  4. genusCygnus
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
  13. subfamilyAnserinae
  14. genusCygnus
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Closest relative on this site
🪿 Greylag Goose — last shared an ancestor ≈ 9.5 million years ago.
In other languages
Trauerschwan (de), Чёрный лебедь (ru), تم أسود (ar), черен лебед (bg), cigne negre (ca), labuť černá (cs) … and 28 more languages
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