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Small mid c.19th hand coloured lithograph of the Black Swan which was one of the first Australian birds to be recorded by Europeans. The first recorded sighting occurred on 5 July 1636 by Dutch sailor Antonie Caen in the ship … Read Full Description
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Small mid c.19th hand coloured lithograph of the Black Swan which was one of the first Australian birds to be recorded by Europeans. The first recorded sighting occurred on 5 July 1636 by Dutch sailor Antonie Caen in the ship the Banda on Bernier Island, N.W. Australia.
The first capture 7 January 1697 by Willem de Vlamingh, Jurien Bay, Western Australia.
Modern binomial name: Cygnus atratus
First described: Latham 1790
Distribution: Australia wide
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 140, ill. 140
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