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Black swan, the Glossary

The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.^[1]

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Cygnus (genus)
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Symbols of Western Australia

Anatidae

The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.

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Atherton Tableland

The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Behavioral Ecology (journal)

Behavioral Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.

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Black Swan (stamp)

The Black Swan is the first postage stamp issued by the British colony of Western Australia in 1854.

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The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. Black swan and black swan theory are black swans.

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Booragoon Lake

Booragoon Lake is a small freshwater lake in suburban Perth, Western Australia.

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British Trust for Ornithology

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles.

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Cape Leeuwin

Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia.

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Chatham Islands

The Chatham Islands (Moriori: Rēkohu, 'Misty Sun'; Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approximate radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (''Rangiauria'').

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Dawlish

Dawlish is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Teignbridge district in Devon, England.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Eucla, Western Australia

Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Eyre Highway, approximately west of the South Australian border.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Homosexual behavior in animals

Various non-human animal species exhibit behavior that can be interpreted as homosexual or bisexual, often referred to as same-sex sexual behavior (SSSB) by scientists.

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Irvine, California

Irvine is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora

Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora is a broad, shallow coastal lake or waituna, in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Lake Forest, California

Lake Forest is a city in Orange County, California, United States.

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Lake Junaluska, North Carolina

Lake Junaluska is a census-designated place (CDP) in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States, and an artificial lake in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Lake Rotorua

Lake Rotorua (Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe) is the second largest lake in the North Island of New Zealand by surface area, and covers 79.8 km2.

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Lake Wairarapa

Lake Wairarapa is a lake at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, east of Wellington.

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Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Leucism

Leucism is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes.

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Live Science

Live Science is a science news website.

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Magpie goose

The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. Black swan and magpie goose are taxa named by John Latham (ornithologist).

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Mark Brazil

Dr Mark Andrew Brazil (born 8 June 1955) is a conservationist, author and journalist, particularly noted for his work on east Asian birds.

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Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow (historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a relationship of two individuals in which they form an exclusive intimate partnership.

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Monogamy in animals

Monogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.

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Muséum de Toulouse

The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France.

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National Postal Museum

The National Postal Museum, located opposite Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, covers large portions of the postal history of the United States and other countries.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand swan

The New Zealand swan (Moriori: poūwa, Cygnus sumnerensis) is an extinct indigenous swan from the Chatham Islands and the South Island of New Zealand. Black swan and New Zealand swan are Cygnus (genus) and swans.

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Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Noongah, Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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North West Cape

North West Cape is a peninsula in the north-west of Western Australia.

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Orange County, California

Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.

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Outlier

In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations.

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Plumage

Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Postage stamp design

Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps.

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Potamogeton

Potamogeton is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae.

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River Itchen, Hampshire

The River Itchen in Hampshire, England, rises to the south of New Alresford and flows to meet Southampton Water below the Itchen Bridge.

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River Tees

The River Tees, in England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea in the North East of England.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana (Spanish for) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, California, United States.

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Satire VI

Satire VI is the most famous of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century.

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Satires (Juvenal)

The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D. Juvenal is credited with sixteen poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire. The genre is defined by a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan

Also known as Anas atrata, Black swans, Byahmul, Chenopis atratus, Cygne noir, Cygnus atratus.

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Black swan, the Glossary

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See also

Black swans

Cygnus (genus)

Swans

Symbols of Western Australia

References