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Mute Swan Cygnus olor
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| The Mute Swan is a common breeding bird distributed over most of south Sweden. In
winter it is wide-spread along the coasts of south Sweden both along the open coasts of
the southernmost provinces but also in the archipelagos as long as there are open areas
with suitable depth for feeding swans. In cold winters marked concentrations of wintering
swans are found along the open coasts of the southern part of the country. In
the mild winter of 2015 large numbers of Mute Swans were distributed all
over the archipelagos far out to the outer skerries. The winter
population along the coasts was estimated to be about 50,000 individuals at the country-wide survey in January 2015. The loing-term indices for the Mute Swan both for September and January show significantly increasing trends. In January the indices for the last ten years mererly showed fluctuations, probably related to the hardness of the winters.
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Mute swan January 2015 |
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Page last updated 2021-02-09
