[birdky] Re: Possible Black Swan Hybrid
- From: John Brunjes <john.brunjes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcmcal@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:15:43 -0500
Ok....I shared the pictures with David Roemer and he believes you are
correct in your black/mute hybrid. He was going to look at a few more
references and I'm sure will comment here later. I certainly see his
points....the more immature swan stuff I see...the more confused I
get.
John
On 2/2/10, Paul McAllister <pcmcal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fellow birders,
> On Sunday, 1-31-2010 at 12:15 pm at Reformatory Lake near Buckner, KY, we
> observed a swan that appeared to be a juvenile hybrid black swan. It had a
> black neck, pinkish-black bill and a sooty black back with white flecks. It
> was with another swan -- mottled relatively dark gray with white and also
> with a pinkish-black bill. At first, we thought that both the birds were
> juvenile mute swans, but the black plumage on the one was so dark that we
> had second thoughts. Both birds had black legs and appeared to have held
> their necks in S shapes as do mute swans. There are two resident mute swans
> on the lake. The two darker swans did not associate with them and remainded
> together. We have returned twice to the lake, but have not seen the "dark"
> swans again (the resident mute swans remain). Has anyone else seen birds
> like these in Kentucky? --or is anyone aware of the existence of black swans
> in KY that may have interbred with mute swans? (According to a UK web site,
> hybridized black and mute swans have been recorded.)
>
> Paul and Carol McAllister
> Prospect KY
>
--
John H. Brunjes
Frankfort, KY
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