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 Translation for 'mute swan' from English to Czech
NOUN   a mute swan | mute swans
SYNO Cygnus olor | mute swan
orn.T
mute swan {noun} [Cygnus olor]
labuť {f} velká
mute {adj}němý
orn.T
whooper swan {noun} [Cygnus cygnus]
labuť {f} zpěvná
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Usage Examples English
  • Cyril appeared as the pet of the Emperor of China, in a British pantomime of "Aladdin". As a mute swan, he does not give interviews.
  • There are wetland breeding birds such as water rail, mute swan, sedge warbler, kingfisher and tufted duck.
  • The area is now home to several species such as the moorhen, mute swan and mallard.
  • In early spring 2003, Lake LaVerne welcomed its newest and most current mute swan duo.
  • Bird life at the lake was abundant before the lake was dredged in 1973. Since then it has been reduced but has a stable population of mute swan, mallard, reed bunting, and common moorhen.

  • Other birds include mute swan, great crested grebe, little grebe and Eurasian coot.
  • The lowermost section of the Whiteadder is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) by virtue of its water crowfoot, salmon, lamprey and moulting mute swan.
  • Water birds including the mute swan, whooper swan, and spoonbill can be found here.
  • "Le cygne" illustrates the fleeting nature of beauty with its interpretation of the legend of the "swan song": A popular (albeit erroneous) belief among the ancient Greeks and Romans, who regarded the swan as the most beautiful of animals, was that the mute swan is silent until its final moments of life, during which it sings the most beautiful of all birdsongs.
  • Pike have been observed hunting and attempting to eat larger waterbirds, such as an incident in 2016 when an individual was observed trying to drown and eat a great crested grebe, as well as an incident the previous year where an attack by a large pike between three and four feet long was implicated as a possible cause for the injury and death of an adult mute swan on Lower Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, but it is generally believed that such attacks are only rare occurrences.

  • At the beginning of the 21st-century there was over eighty mute swan ("Cygnus olor") and many Canada goose ("Branta canadensis") due to feeding them out of date items from a local bakery.
  • An exception in the United Kingdom is the mute swan: The U.K.
  • The mute swan is a partial migrant, being resident over areas of Western Europe but wholly migratory in Eastern Europe and Asia.
  • The areas of water are home to a number of species of waterfowl, including mute swan, moorhen and ducks.
  • Since they nest in cold regions, tundra swan cygnets grow faster than those of swans breeding in warmer climates; those of the whistling swan take about 60–75 days to fledge—twice as fast as those of the mute swan for example—while those of Bewick's swan, about which little breeding data is known, may fledge a record 40–45 days after hatching already.

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