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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Black Swan

Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790)

O cisne-negro ou cisne-preto (Cygnus atratus) é uma ave aquática australiana, pertencente à família Anatidae, a mesma família dos patos, gansos, e demais cisnes. Podem-se encontrar em todos os estados da Austrália, sendo a ave oficial do estado da Austrália Ocidental. Na Europa, foi introduzida acidentalmente e tem populações autossuficientes na Grã-Bretanha, Islândia, Polónia e Países Baixos. O animal adulto pode pesar até 9 kg. Ao contrário de muitas outras aves aquáticas, os cisnes negros não têm hábitos migratórios. Passam a sua vida no local onde nasceram.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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
All measurements ↓
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
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Volume l
5.6 Laverage
Details ↓

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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