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There is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick�*s swan survey. it was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. this is one of the world's longest running animal research projects. the advantage of having so much data year after y...

Just 25 years old, the arsenal midfielder is considered a future england captain and this weekend he will be hoping to make more strong statements of the footballing kind when arsenal host liverpool in the fa cup third round. nesta mcgregor, bbc news. you'd probably recognise your pet dog or cat from their face alone, but what about a bird? well, each bewick�*s swan has a unique face which enables researchers to count them and track their family histories — and that's exactly what's been happening at the slimbridge wetland centre, in gloucestershire, as our environment correspondent jonah ...

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And somewhere amongst the squabbling geese, an increasingly rare type of swan. the bewick swans are really unique because they are literally recognisable by their faces. a bit like us. smaller than mute swans, the yellow and black beak pattern of each bewicks distinct, enabling researchers to recognize them year after year. george ii. the swans arrive from the russian arctic each autumn and are counted every day. names are given to individuals. they definitely have distinct personalities. and there are swan family dynasties. the most famous is the gambling dynasty. the matriarch of that family...

It was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. here is one of the bewicks swan books that peter worked on, and you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern. and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. and that's the left and the right side, but also the front. this is one of the world's longest running animal research projects. and the advantage of having so much data year after year is the information it provides, not just about how they live ...