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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Mute Swan

Mute Swan

(Royal Swan, Common Swan, Domestic Swan, Swan, Tame Swan, Wild Swan)

Cygnus olor

Gaelic: Eala-bhan

Photograph © Martin Scott
Cromor - South Lochs - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
7th November, 2009

"Pair of Mute Swans among the passage Whoopers at Cromor today"

Our Swan photographs

Mute Swan	Mute Swan with cygnets	Mute Swan cygnets	Mute Swans with cygnets
Mute Swan	Black Swan	Whooper Swan (other photos too)

 

Mute Swan records in the Western Isles

Fairly common resident breeder (100-999 breeding pairs) in Benbecula and the Uists
These are the highest UK breeding densities and are a nationally important population
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

 

Rare visitor to Lewis and Harris - a single breeding record in 2007

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more Mute Swan the bird is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

Collective nouns for Swans

A ballet, team, whiting, squadron of swans (dubious this one!)

A bank, herd, sounder, drift, lamentation of swans

A game, herd, bevy of swans

A regatta of swans (on water)

A whiteness of swans

An eyrar of swans

A wedge of swans (flying in a "V")

From WIKI

 

 

Other local bird photographs

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