Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

Mute Swan photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026
 Mute Swan photographed by Jess
RSPB Leighton Moss, Myers Farm, Storrs Lane, Silverdale, LA5 0SW, England · August 22, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 4.9M open records.

Records by month. January, 521,836 records. February, 388,098 records. March, 518,436 records. April, 589,997 records. May, 601,767 records. June, 309,480 records. July, 259,535 records. August, 285,778 records. September, 342,054 records. October, 382,553 records. November, 335,130 records. December, 338,352 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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