Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Black Swan

Black Swan (Cygnus atratus, 黑天鹅).

Kept in the zoological water garden by the Hunan Art Museum. There four adults, including one nesting and four young cygnets.

When I was young on Vancouver Island, a black swan appeared at Esquimalt Lagoon: I heard at the time it was an improbable traveller from Australia but I suppose it could have escaped from captivity somewhere closer: in any case, after it began to attract attention, some people (assumed to be teenagers, of course) came at night and killed it with stones.

Black Swan in Changsha