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Where does the Whooper Swan live?

Cygnus cygnus has 2,189,506 records in 73 countries and territories, from 1694 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Whooper Swan
Whooper Swan — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeCygnus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 1,184,870
Denmark 334,558
Norway 260,447
Finland 127,289
Netherlands 56,591
United Kingdom 55,356
Iceland 43,837
Germany 20,889
Russia 20,716
Japan 12,506
Poland 8,663
Ireland 8,334
Belgium 7,661
South Korea 5,554
Mongolia 5,341
Estonia 3,996
France 3,888
Lithuania 3,210
United States 2,764
China 2,574
Ukraine 2,025
Belarus 1,519
Kazakhstan 1,494
Bulgaria 1,378
Åland Islands 1,335
Latvia 1,335
Spain 1,311
Switzerland 1,253
Taiwan 933
Türkiye 743
Czechia 697
Romania 673
Canada 657
Greece 646
Austria 644
Isle of Man 581
Faroe Islands 573
Azerbaijan 343
Iran 319
Hungary 288

Showing the top 40 of 73 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.