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Whooper or Tundra swan

Can anybody say which species this swan is, from the black beak I assume Whooper or Tundra, but other than that I'm clueless :p
Can anybody say which species this swan is, from the black beak I assume Whooper or Tundra, but other than that I\'m clueless :p
 
Whooper swan has a yellow bill with a black tip, it's tundra or trumpeter.

They're the two I meant :p - I always get whooper and trumpeter mixed up, I know which is which if I stop and think but when typing quickly at midnight then I'm easily confused :p
 
They're the two I meant :p - I always get whooper and trumpeter mixed up, I know which is which if I stop and think but when typing quickly at midnight then I'm easily confused :p

Worse than that, the name 'Tundra Swan' technically includes the mostly-black-billed Whistling Swan and the also heavily-yellowed (sub)species Bewick's Swan* - so you really mean Whistling or Trumpeter. :D

Trumpeters have all-black bills, 'blockier-shaped' black on the face and are generally stockier - this looks like a Trumpeter to me.

Whistling are more slender and delicate and usually have a yellow spot of varying size in front of the eye. On Blackbrook's birds the spot is small, but it is there: http://www.zoochat.com/192/whistling-swan-blackbrook-21-10-12-a-295112/ (you may need to view full-size image to see the yellow)



*and the taxonomically-dubious Jankowski's Swan, another yellow-billed form, which Blackbrook also displays
 

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