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Winter visiting swans are set to depart very soon
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Winter visiting swans are set to depart very soon
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Winter visiting swans are set to depart very soon
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As we leave winter behind, the evocative, loud, bugling calls of Whooper Swans will soon fall silent for another year as these impressive winter visitors to Ireland depart northwards for their breeding grounds in remote areas of the Icelandic tundra.
We have three species of swan in Ireland. The Mute Swan with its orange-red bill and prominent black knob on its forehead, is a well-known and widely distributed resident. The other two have yellow bills, do not have black knobs on their foreheads, and are winter visitors from the far north.
The Whooper Swan, the larger of the two winter visitors, is immortalised in the legend of the Children of Lir in which the children s wicked step-mother turned the four offspring of King Lir into swans.
Irish Whooper Swan population at all-time high 5dfec23a-3d9f-4db4-8d28-0bacd7b9c479
The Irish Whooper Swan population is at an all-time high, according to survey results published by BirdWatch Ireland.
In January 2020, the eighth International Swan Census took place. The Census is carried out over a single weekend every five years, with volunteers setting out to locate and count every Whooper and Bewick s Swan in the country in order to provide an update population estimate for each species.
The survey is co-ordinated in the Republic of Ireland by BirdWatch Ireland as part of the Irish Wetland Bird Survey (I-WeBS) under contract to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.