Species Detail - Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Birds of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Cygnus cygnus
Whooper Swan
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cycyg
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
1689
349
107
01/01/1970
26/12/2024
1 January (recorded in 1970)
31 December (recorded in 2014)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus), accessed 25 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10103>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)