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The Relax of Coscoroba Swan (25)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (7405) | Coscoroba coscoroba
Description: The plumage of completely white color, with form of goose of long neck and tail very short.
White color except the ends of the primary ones of white color. The wide affluent tip and legs of rosaceous orange color and the red rainbow. The immature one is of gray coloration uniform.
Lengths (in mm.)
Total 1125
Tail 140
Peak 67
Habitat: One is in lakes and lagoons of the region.
Customs observations: It is fed such on elements that the swan of black neck and in the same way.
Nest building: They construct it in neighborhoods of the water, and in the same way that the swan of black neck almost on the water hardly elevated between scrubs or reedbeds hardly on the level of the water but with but much material which the one of the swan, with much tender vegetation and much featherbed in their similar interior to the nests of bustards and as they when leaving the nest completely covers with that featherbed.
They put of 4 to 6 eggs of absolute white color of 89 xs 60 mm. approx.
Song: It emits a fort specially shout when it flies, of where obtains his name of coscoroba.
Migration and residence: Before the winter most of the population is transferred towards the north of its distribution. In Chile they arrive until Santiago and to the east of the continent they are concentrated between Buenos Aires, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul. They have seen some even more the north, arriving until the center of Brazil.
It is a resident that nidify, making migrations in the entrance of the winter towards the north.
Population density - abundance: This considered at the present time like in extinction risk in this area, does about 20 years back was very common but at the present time it is not in amounts like before. Is almost always associate with the swans of black neck.
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| Taken in the London Wetlands near Hammersmith in April 2004. Battled to get a name, just one of many I never got round to post, thiought it might go well here, if you do not mind. |
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