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 ...

Nine mute swans have died at a wetland reserve in East Yorkshire in an outbreak of avian flu. The first swan died at North ...

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has confirmed a mute swan found near the Kings Lock Inn on the Trent and Mersey Canal tested positive ...

Two swans found dead at Mather Lake in November have tested positive for bird flu, said state fish and wildlife officials. The mute swans’ carcasses were recovered Nov. 26 from Mather Lake at ...

YOU CAN SEE THE LOCKS AND THIS GATE. THIS PARK HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE LATE NOVEMBER, AFTER DOZENS OF MUTE SWANS WERE FOUND DEAD. WELL, NOW, WILDLIFE OFFICIALS HAVE CONFIRMED IT WAS IN FACT THE BIRD ...