3414 x 5100 px | 28,9 x 43,2 cm | 11,4 x 17 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
12 gennaio 2007
Ubicazione:
Waterbird park Yonago Tottori Japan
Altre informazioni:
The Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) is a small Holarctic swan. The two taxa within it are conventionally [2] regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes[3] split into two species, Cygnus bewickii (Bewick's Swan) of the Palaearctic and the Whistling Swan C. columbianus of the Nearctic. Bewick's Swan is named after the engraver Thomas Bewick, who specialised in illustrations of birds and animals. Birds from eastern Russia (roughly east of the Taimyr Peninsula) are sometimes separated as the subspecies C. c. jankowskii, but this is not widely accepted as distinct, most authors including them in C. c. bewickii. Yonago (米子市, Yonago-shi?) is a city located in the northwest of Tottori, Japan, facing the Sea of Japan, and adjacent to Shimane. It is the prefecture's second largest city after Tottori and therefore a commercial center of the western part of this prefecture. The current city was administratively founded on April 1, 1927, and merged with Yodoe Town in 2005. It has an art gallery. The name "Yonago" means "Rice Child", though since the city has begun to develop into a trade center of note, it has acquired the nickname Osaka in San-in. The Amago family, the daimyo in the Sengoku period, constructed a castle in the area. In the Edo period, the castle was kept by a castellan who served the Ikeda of Tottori. Yonago has always been an important crossing point of several routes in the area. Currently, it is the crosspoint of three railway lines and has a seaport to the Oki Islands. Yonago Airport, located in a neighboring city, Sakaiminato, serves the area. Miho-Yonago Airport serves the city.
