<div dir="ltr">as seen here, black swans are rarely all black... easiest to notice when they are flying and/or doing a bit of stretching...<div>FYI -- black swans can be seen Way Out of Range. for example, i found several around more rural sections of france, north, west, and south. the UK introduced them in i think the 1800s as ornamentals; occasional escapees can sometimes be found flying around.</div><div><br></div><div>like trileigh, i'd love to see them around here...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Black_Swan_in_Flight_Crop.jpg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Black_Swan_in_Flight_Crop.jpg</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 2:52 PM Trileigh Tucker via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3937115398438711727">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">Martha, is this person usually a reliable source? I could sort of see a novice birder seeing cormorants fly somewhere, looking to the untrained eye like black swans.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino;color:black">But it’d be fun if they are indeed the latter!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="color:black">Martha Jordan via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 15, 2024 at 6:09</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Tweeters] black swans??<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone seen or heard of anyone seeing black swans flying or on the ground/water in the area south of Monroe all the way down to Stillwater? I got a report today from a woman who absolutely says she has seen 3 black swans flying around
in this area over the last month. When I queried her more, she said they were all black. Juvenile trumpeters can appear very dark, perhaps by some to be black. Therefore, I send out the inquiry.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> (Lewis and Clark journals state that they saw black and white swans near the mouth of the Columbia River. From what all us biologists can determine, these were adult and juvenile Trumpeter Swans.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<u></u><u></u></p>
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