#0699 · 🐦 birds

Tundra Swan

🇳🇱 Fluitzwaan ·Cygnus columbianus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The tundra swan ( Cygnus columbianus ) is a small Holarctic swan. The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes split into two species: Bewick's swan ( Cygnus bewickii ) of the Palaearctic and the whistling swan ( C. columbianus ) proper of the Nearctic. Birds from eastern Russia (roughly east of the Taimyr Peninsula) are sometimes separated as the subspecies C. c. jankowskii , but this is not widely accepted as distinct, most authors including them...

base stats

NL sightings 160iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,860iNaturalist observations
weight 7.3 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).