Английская Википедия:Cygnus falconeri

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Cygnus falconeri, the giant swan, (Maltese: Шаблон:Lang) is an extinct, very large swan known from Middle Pleistocene-aged deposits from Malta and Sicily. Its dimensions are described as exceeding those of the living mute swan by one-third,[1] which would give a bill-to-tail length of about Шаблон:Cvt (based on 145–160 cm for C. olor[2]). By comparison to the bones of living swans, it can be estimated that it weighed around Шаблон:Cvt and had a wingspan of about Шаблон:Cvt.[3][4][5] It would have been taller, though not heavier, than the region's dwarf elephants. Due to its size, it may have been flightless.[6] It became extinct before the increase in human activity in the region (see Holocene extinction event), so its disappearance is thought to have resulted from extreme climate fluctuations or the arrival of predators and superior competitors.[7] Its bones are exhibited at Għar Dalam museum in Birżebbuġa, Malta.

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  5. Watanabe, J. (2017). Quantitative discrimination of flightlessness in fossil Anatidae from skeletal proportions. The Auk, 134(3), 672–695. https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-17-23.1
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