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I noticed User:jimfbleak's plea for a better photo inside a recent summary comment. Jim, if you're listening, I saw several Whoopers whilst in Iceland recently - they're by far the most common swan over there. If my girlfriend got a decent picture, I will plead with her for GDFL permission tonight. Pete 08:45, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I added a picture but sadly it is slightly out-of-focus. I invite interested parties to decide between the drawing and the picture! Pete 21:38, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Capitalization
Why is "whooper swan" capitalized several times throughout the course of this article? It should be changed to lowercase, unless Whooper is a proper name I'm not aware of. Paul Davidson (talk) 07:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Attacks on humans?
According to the Guinness Book Of Records, there has been at least one case, where a whooper swan has attacked and killed a human being. Does anyone have any info on this? Sounds pretty unbelievable, unless the human killed was a small child and/or there were several birds. They're not even known as an aggressive species. I remember standing just a meter or two from an adult bird and its nest and it didn't attack. (Vehement (talk) 20:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC))
Just checked; apparently it was a mute swan, not a whooper swan. Still sounds pretty amazing(Vehement (talk) 20:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC))
Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Trumpeter Swan which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:45, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
taiga zone
What is a "taiga zone" please?Vernon White . . . Talk 22:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
- I added a link on the word taiga to the Wikipedia page. But the short version is that it's a northern hemisphere biome dominated by coniferous forest. Danikat (talk) 22:32, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
IPA Pronunciation
The pronunciation being just like "hooper swan" with a link to the page on pronunciation doesn't seem to be consistent with the standard IPA pronunciation. Perhaps this should be added?
The RP pronunciation would be: