the 1,25 m long black swan or mourning-swan originally "only" was Australia and Tasmania over whole widespread. its main-brood-areas lie in the southeast and southwest of the continent, however, given birds rove also through Australia's inside. In New Zealand, the human being naturalized befiederten swans successfully fully black these as far as on its white hand and (expresses) Armschwingen so that they are there very widespread today.
Way of life Mourning-swans live sweetly especially in large numbers in extended wetlands and at big - and Brackwasserseen, that doesn't dry-fall intermittently. But also smaller waters, that vary strongly seasonal in the water-stand, are used to the brood in many places.
With the mourning-swan erbrüten both alto-birds its 5-6 eggs, in fact for 34-37 days. The Dunenjungen often become in the back-plumage of gehudert and around-carried. Mourning-swans resemble the hump-swans, with whom they have the S-förmige attitude of the neck and impressing and threatening with high-curved wings in common furthermore, in it.
Shape The youth-plumage is dun with black swans and still has black tops the Handschwingen. Also the plumage of adult animals often shows a brown touch. The waiter-wing-blankets are easily frizzy. The red beak with its wide, white bond at the top as well as the red iris contrasts strikingly from the black head-plumage. The legs and the feet of mourning-swans are dark-gray.
As the sexes don't differ of each other almost at all with all swans; male mourning-swans become a little bigger, also they hold something its upper neck-part stretched. Although its windpipe is extended only quite little, mourning-swans of sound-like, "trumpeting" reputations, that (as voice-contact-reputations) are to frequently be heard particularly at its nightly flights, produce.
Black swans already were introduced to Europe early and were held half tamely as "park-swans." they often brood also in captivity and are to be held properly without problems.
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