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Where does the Mute Swan live?

Cygnus olor has 6,712,550 records in 98 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Mute Swan
Mute Swan — Sanchezn / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeCygnus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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
United States 1,526,555
Sweden 967,253
Netherlands 815,428
United Kingdom 729,730
Denmark 678,531
Norway 337,672
France 335,189
Canada 326,504
Germany 266,039
Belgium 120,333
Poland 93,104
Estonia 54,825
Finland 54,661
Czechia 53,683
Spain 41,131
Austria 38,949
Switzerland 36,921
Ireland 36,660
Italy 29,316
Russia 27,269
Ukraine 14,222
Serbia 13,177
Croatia 12,627
Bulgaria 11,624
Hungary 10,393
Romania 8,889
Slovenia 7,869
Slovakia 7,545
Lithuania 7,138
Belarus 6,535
Greece 6,185
New Zealand 4,235
Japan 4,079
Türkiye 3,680
Luxembourg 3,306
Latvia 2,979
Portugal 2,903
Åland Islands 2,652
Isle of Man 1,996
Kazakhstan 1,690

Showing the top 40 of 98 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.