Trumpeter swan which is apparent even when the swan is not standing or swimming upright) and larger, wedge-shaped bill as compared to the tundra swan. Trumpeter swans have similar calls to whooper swans and Bewick's swans. They are loud and somewhat musical creatures, with their cry sounding similar to a trumpet, which gave the bird its name. Beginning in 1968, repeated in 1975, and then conducted at 5-year intervals, a cooperative pan-continental survey of trumpeter swans was last conducted in 2015. The survey assesses trumpeter swan abundance and productivity throughout the entire breeding ranges of the three recognized North American populations: the
Silver-throated bushtit "Mecistura glaucogularis". He specified the type locality as Shanghai. As Gould's work appeared in print in 1855 before the publication of the proceedings of the Zoological Society, under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Gould's publication has priority. The name "glaucogularis" combines the Latin "glaucus" "glaucous" and the New Latin "gularis" "throated". The silver-throated bushtit was formerly considered a subspecies of the long-tailed tit ("Aegithalos caudatus") but the plumage is distinctive and there are significant genetic differences. Two subspecies are recognised: Silver-throated bushtit The silver-throated bushtit or silver-throated tit ("Aegithalos glaucogularis") is a species of bird in