Named for Cygnus columbianus, also called Cygnus bewickii, or Bewick’s swan. {It belongs to the family of the Anatidae. Bewick’s Swan comes from Northern Russia and stays along the North Sea in winter. In 1994 only 3,000 pairs of Cygnus columbianus were counted.} (M 33790; M 34089) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.