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Land of lakes and swans
Three species of swans live in Finland during the summer time: by the sea shores the white swan in Latin cygnus olor and in Finnish kyhmyjoutsenon the lakes in the inland the whooper swan in Latin cygnus cygnus and in Finnish laulujoutsenand the rare bewick's swan in Latin cygnus bewickii and in Finnisch kääpiöjoutsen In the picture you a couple of white swan landing on our lake. Every year in the very early spring the same swans come to the same lake to breed and raise their off-springs...During Easter when the ice on the lakes is already slowly melting there's always a dramatic spectacle, when other swans try to get their share of fresh water...Swans have been very highly regarded animals to our ancestors, esp. in Carelia. It is said that there was along the Bear and the Elk clans a Swan clan... Even in paleolithic petroglyphs swan are distinguishable.
