Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) | Affiliated Manuscripts | Further Data

Occurrence in Amherst & Connecticut Valley, Mass.

C19

No local record in Clark 1887; 1906; no regional record in Emmons 1833 or Allen 1864.

C20

A European species . . .which has become wild on Long Island and the Middle Hudson, and may easily be straying into adjacent regions. —Bagg & Eliot

C21

Imported species; now feral and resident except when ice prevents them from remaining in open water

Habitat

ponds, rivers, bays, coastal lagoons

Nest Materials

twigs, reeds, cattails, cord grasses, sedges, rushes, bulrushes, down, occasionally pebbles

21st Century Conservation Notes