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Bewick's Swan

Altocirrus, swans white as the tundra they come from.

Their cries multiply. Their bodies crash-land on the water

Star after star after star.

Lynn Wycherley, from Bewick’s Swans Arrive at Ouse Washes

Russians say the Bewick’s swan ’brings snow on its beak’. Hence forecasts of a ‘white Christmas’ when this winter

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