What type of creatures in Britain have types called Whooper and Berwick?
Whooper swan resonant and lower-pitched on average: "kloo-kloo-kloo" in groups of three or four. Whooper swans are much admired in Europe. The whooper swan is the national bird of Finland and is featured on the Finnish 1 euro coin. The whooper swan is one of the species to which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies. Musical utterances by whooper swans at the moment of death have been suggested as the origin of the swan song legend. The global spread of H5N1 reached the UK in April 2006 in the form of a dead whooper swan found in
Whooper swan Whooper swan The whooper swan ("Cygnus cygnus"), pronounced "hooper swan", is a large Northern Hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan, and the type species for the genus "Cygnus". Francis Willughby and John Ray's "Ornithology" of 1676 referred to this swan as "the Elk, Hooper, or wild Swan". The scientific name is from "cygnus", the Latin for "swan". The whooper swan is similar in appearance to the Bewick's swan. It is larger, however, at a length of and a wingspan of . Weight typically is in the range of , with an average of