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Mum with two of her four cygnets. Two of the four have black bills and two have brown bills. I wonder if the black billed are male and the brown-billed are female?

Black Swans: "A large black swan, usually seen floating on water. When the wings are lifted, or when flying, pure white flight feathers are visible, which are black-tipped in immature birds. The bill is a bright red with a terminal white band, the eyes are red, and the legs are dark grey. Both sexes are alike, but the female is noticeably smaller than the male. Cygnets are grey with a black bill, and newly-fledged young are dull greyish-brown with a brown eye. On land swans walk slowly and are ungainly. In flight, the birds labour and their conspicuous white flight feathers elicit a whistling sound.". nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/black-swan
Date Taken on 28 April 2022, 08:37
Source Proud Mum...
Author Geoff McKay from Palmerston North, New Zealand
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palmerston north, new zealand, city park, manawatu, sony, ilce-7rm4, manawatu-wanganui, hokowhitu lagoon, sel200600g, black swan, swan, cygnet, cygnets
Camera location40° 22′ 03.42″ S, 175° 37′ 44.12″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Geoff J Mckay at https://flickr.com/photos/129472387@N07/52037066770. It was reviewed on 5 May 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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