page_title: Whooper swan
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Whooper swan / Description
caption_attribution_description: Bewick's Swan, Jan. 2006, Saitama JAPAN&#160;; Japanese description:コハクチョウ 2006年1月 埼玉県川本町 (投稿者自身による撮影)
context_page_description: The whooper swan, is a large white bird which lives in Europe and Asia. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan. Francis Willughby and John Ray's Ornithology of 1676 referred to the this swan as "the Elk, Hooper, or wild Swan".
context_section_description: An adult whooper swan  weighs 9-11 kg. It is 140-160 cm long (including neck and head) and it has a wingspan of 205-235 cm. Young swans are grey-brown. They have a pink and black beak. The young get pale grey in end of their first summer. They get the white adult colour before their second winter. Male and female swans look otherwise similar, but the males are larger.
  The whooper swan, Bewick's swan and mute swan look quite similar, but the details are different.
  Whooper swan is clearly larger than Bewick's swan. When it lands it water or takes off it slides longer distances.
caption: Bevick swan short neck and horizntal tail.
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