Beautiful Display
by Donna Kennedy
Title
Beautiful Display
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy..All natural morning sunlight..
This male Swan (Cygnus) is staying close to it's mate who is sitting on a nest close by at a pond on the University of Reno campus. 1221
The adaptable Mute Swan can be found in aquatic habitats ranging from urban lakes and farm ponds to coastal estuaries. In the Pacific Northwest and from New England south to Virginia, Mute Swan pairs choose fresh, brackish, and saltwater ponds as breeding sites. Farther inland, they breed on slow-moving rivers, bogs, embayments, and creeks and streams that empty into large lakes and other bodies of water. Severe weather or food shortages may drive birds from their territories to winter with nonbreeders in ice-free stretches of lakes, rivers, estuaries, and ocean sounds.
Swans are sociable except in breeding season. They mate for life. Courtship involves mutual bill dipping or head-to-head posturing. The pen incubates, on average, 6 pale unmarked eggs on a heap of vegetation while the cob keeps close guard; in some species he takes his turn at brooding.
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April 30th, 2013
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