Biopark map
The map allows you to quickly view where the educational spaces with the various animals are located. The areas of it are sensitive, that is, if you pass over them and the little hand appears, you will be able to access the affected area easily and directly.
Black Swan
Mandarin duck
Carolina
Bahamian Pintail
Red-billed dendrocyan
Dendrocigna fulva
Hawaiian goose
Brazilian Teal
Red Shoveler Duck
Black Swan (Chenopis atrata)
Origin, habitat, nutrition and reproduction
Species native to Australia and Tasmania. It populates areas rich in water and aquatic vegetation. Today it is also widespread in some areas of Europe and America. Thanks to its beautiful appearance it is easy to see it in zoos around the world. It adapts very well to captivity and is also a good reproducer. He is an excellent flyer even if taking off is a bit laborious. The diet (similar to that of the Mute Swan) is based on small fish, molluscs, seeds and sprouts that it finds in the water by immersing its long neck. Couples, once formed, remain fixed forever. Of sedentary habits it makes the nest hidden by the vegetation near the water, usually reeds with straw and dry grasses, which the female internally covers with feathers that she tears from her belly, where she lays 5 - 8 eggs (whitish shell) which she incubates for about 30-34 days. The chicks, with grayish down and dark beaks, are self-sufficient when they hatch, but follow and are protected by their parents. During the reproductive period the male is very jealous and aggressive. In the remaining part of the year the Black Swan coexists peacefully with other species of Anatidae, even smaller ones in size. During the moulting period, which lasts a few days, it is unable to fly.
Morphological characteristics
The Black Swan has a smaller head and a longer neck than other swan species. The coat has a dark color, almost black, over the entire body with the exception of the flight feathers, which are white. Male and female have similar plumage and size. The beak is red and the eye orange. The legs are dark gray in color. Cuts approximately 1.5 metres. Young swans have dark gray plumage until they are three years old (reaching reproductive age)