The Swans of Stanley Park

Welcome to The Swans of Stanley Park and to their home, Lost Lagoon, in Vancouver, Canada. We hope this site will bring you closer to this most special part of the wildlife through the year, and will delight as well as inform. Don't miss our Ask The Swan Specialist board where our visitors from around the world are welcome to ask questions about swans to the Regal Swan® Foundation. Also, see a close-up of our mute swans and life around them. Scroll down to see the latest messages of our 6 message boards and our swan slide show.

Ask the Swan Specialist · See all 2434 posts ·

Re: Protect my baby swans.. by: The Regal Swan

Hi There are three ways to protect the cygnets although there are no guarantees. Foxes and minks, especially minks are voracious diggers. One possible solution would be to place the swans in a chain..

Re: Length of time between hatching eggs by: The Regal Swan

Hi Patty Usually the eggs hatch within a day or two. The Regal. Swan

Length of time between hatching eggs by: Patty

Two cygnets have hatched from a mute swan nest and there are 3 remaining eggs. How long before we should see the remaining eggs hatch?

Protect my baby swans.. by: How to protect my baby swans from fox and minks?

Last year I had 5 baby new swans. They all died. We found a snapper at the bottom of the pond and caught 22 raccoons. Now here we are, with 5 eggs. I have set up two title traps 3 raccoons( 3 caught..

Re: Single young swan alone by: The Regal Swan

Hi Barbara: Yes, this is normal behavior. The older pair are probably the parents and they are telling junior that it is time to find another pond. As long as the young swan has not been pinioned..

Single young swan alone by: Barbara

Good morning. I live on cedar creek near barnegat bay and have many swans visiting. There is a young swan that's alone swimming around and the pair that are around chase it away. Is this territorial..

Re: Incubation by: The Regal Swan

Hi Julie: Incubation usually is counted by the swan after the last egg is laid. The Regal Swan

Latest Swan News at the Lagoon · See all 164 posts ·

Nest fence pulled by photographer by: Stephen

Now I saw a photographer pull the top of the fence down with one hand while on his tip toes while barely holding the camera with his other hand just to get his picture. If he had dropped it, he would..

Re: nest fences by: Michelle

I will also be so happy when the swans are gone. This is so cruel to pinion swans and to keep them in a hostile environment like Lost Lagoon.

nest fences by: Stephen

I had forgotten after 3 nesting seasons of not doing the fence the ignorance and disrespect of people towards the swans. Parents allow their young children to pull and tug on the fencing. Somehow..

Re: Do we have a black swans in Stanley Park, as suggested by Lorna Crozier in her poem? by: Fiona Sinclair, Swan Volunteer at Lost Lagoon

Hi, Nick Many thanks for your question. At one time, there were several Australian black swans (Cygnus atratus) on Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, but they eventually disappeared. An article in the..

Alerts · See all 30 posts ·

Dial 311 for emergencies at Lost Lagoon by: Admin

The Vancouver Parks Rangers tell me that the new 311 number of the City of Vancouver can be used for emergencies at Lost Lagoon. For example: - If you see an injured swan, call 311 and ask to speak..

Swan Stories Worldwide · See all 38 posts ·

Mating Pair of Mutes Needs New Home by: Jim R

Our neighborhood near Atlanta Georgia has a pair of mating swans which need a new home. We have three lakes and they are fighting with the swans on the other lakes. These swans are very territorial..

Swan called me overhead... by: mary

I have just seen your stories on swans. I would like to tell you about something i felt would never happen. I live near a wildlife area with a lovely pond there are two swans male and female. The..

For sale: Bronze statue of a lifesize mute swan by: Rosi

I have just completed a bronze of a life-size mute swan. It is called Cedric Swan. It is on Brac stone from Croatia and could hold 2 men standing on it. It weighs about a quarter of a tonne. It has..

Swans Through the Seasons · See all 114 posts ·

Royal swan fight by: Just trying to kill each other!

I got down to the Lagoon on Sunday Nov 27 and things were pretty calm - Tristan and Isolde came up to eat at this end. Then... Bijan came closer - he must have been pretty hungry, and decided he'd..

Mama & Papa Swan's Adventures by: Swans 10 - Raccoon 0

Mama and Papa Swan sailed proudly along the channel at their end of the lagoon. They have enough feathers to look regal, as long as Papa doesn’t try to raise his wings too high – they ARE still a bit..

Summer Swans by: It Isn’t Easy Being Green

Today is cool and raining, and although that doesn’t put a smile on many visitors’ faces, it’s a happy fleet of swans we see scattered across the lagoon, bouncing on the windswept waves. During the..

Summer Swans by: Help! Extreme Makeover Needed

It’s early summer and most of the Lost Lagoon swans are slipping into their just-kick-back-and-relax look, but some take that fashion much farther than others. First, it’s the season when they root..

Summer Swans by: Mama Swan Back to Her Routines & Some Fun

With Mama Swan completely off the nest and back to her normal routine, her appetite’s slowly returning and she’s enjoying lots of leisure time on the water. That is, if you can count pedaling at top..

Other Animals and Nature · See all 31 posts ·

The horse that paints by: Admin

New video of this amazing horse (click on the link below)

Baby elephant saved from water well by: Admin

"Members of the Amboseli Trust, an elephant welfare and conservation group, rescued a baby elephant trapped in a water well in Kenya." See Baby run to Mom after the rescue. There is a..

Justin paints by: Justin the Artistic Horse

This talented painter doesn't paint horses, but he is a horse. Paintings by Justin The Artistic Horse, began with my horse Justin’s natural ability to pick up objects and play with them. As a visual..