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00 2102 Trauerschwäne (Breisach am Rhein)🦆

Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Black Swan

Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790)

흑고니는 오스트레일리아에 사는 새이며, 웨스턴오스트레일리아주의 상징 새이다. 아종인 뉴질랜드고니는 마오리족에 의해 멸종했다. 몸무게는 9kg 가량이다. 다른 고니류 새와는 달리 텃새로, 태어난 곳에서 평생 산다. 호숫가에 큰 둔덕을 만들고 그 위에 둥지를 튼다. 매년 고쳐가면서 같은 둥지를 계속 쓴다. 수컷과 암컷이 알을 교대로 품는다.일부는 계절에 따라 서식지를 옮기기도 한다. 오스트레일리아는 1974년부터 흑고니를 법적으로 보호하고 있다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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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
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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
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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.
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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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