cucullatus ("hooded") was first used by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg in 1635 as Cygnus cucullatus, in reference to Carolus Clusius's 1605 depiction of a dodo....

name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with the genus name Cygnus Bechstein, 1803, meaning "swan" in Latin. The specific epithet viduata is...

Chao (19 September 2022). "Diet and feeding ecology of Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) and Tundra Swan (C. columbianus) at the Yellow River Wetland of Baotou...

of moa. The largest swan of ever evolved was the Pleistocene giant swan (Cygnus falconeri), it reached bill-to-tail length of about 190–210 cm (75–83 in)...