The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has renewed the Village of Manlius' license to collect and possess four existing immature non-native mute swans, but there's a catch.

In December 2013, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) released a Draft Management Plan for Mute Swans that called for complete eradication of all 2,200 birds from the state ...

Instead, the village applied to the Department of Environmental Conversation for an extension of its current permit to keep the four mute swans, without resorting to any swan family planning.

Public health officials say avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been identified as the cause of death for waterfowl ...

VILLAGE OF MANLIUS, N.Y. — The Village of Manlius has had mute swans in its pond for more than 100-years, and it looks like they'll be there at least one year longer after the Department of ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources said it has confirmed 98 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza since 2022 in ...

Even today the Queen has the right to claim any unmarked mute swan swimming in open water. The Mute Swan – the classic swan seen in British parks – isn’t actually mute, but grunts and hisses.

Six swans, including three cygnets, have been found stabbed and beheaded. Two mute swans were decapitated in Birchmere Park, Thamesmead, south-east London, last month - a third was found mutilated ...

Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre took in an injured mute swan earlier this week A wildlife rescue centre said it is seeing "more and more" animals deliberately injured by people.