✿❀ Beautiful And Exotic Black Swans ❀✿

[♥ Lily ♥]

Black Swans

In England, we're only familiar with seeing white swans like this...




...but in the extremely hot climate of Australia there's elegant and sleek ebony coloured swans
with a soft glistening shimmer to their feathers and a contrast of bright pink beaks.

"The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic conditions. Black swans are large birds with mostly black plumage and red bills. They are monogamous breeders that share incubation duties and cygnet rearing between the sexes.

Described scientifically by English naturalist John Latham in 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenopis. Black swans can be found singly, or in loose companies numbering into the hundreds or even thousands. Black swans are popular birds in zoological gardens and bird collections, and escapees are sometimes seen outside their natural range." Source: Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan

Ebony Swans go surfing in Australia!


❀ If all the flowers in a garden were the same shade it would be so dull,
so this diversity of different shaded swans is very beautiful in nature
and in the continuously changing evolution of nature on this planet.

✿ Here's a beautiful and exotic combination of a black and white swan!



❀ Swans are elegant and graceful, yet powerful and very protective,
and they can break a humans arm with their very strong beaks (which are like hammers) if their baby swans (signets)
are threatened or endangered.

✿ It's in an interesting contrast and combination to see them gliding elegantly alongside each other on a lake in the pictures below. εïз