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.

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

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 ...

The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute, Bewick's, black, and black-necked fill out the ranks.

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.

The Trust said the outbreak is affecting the mute swan population and is asking visitors to report any poorly or dead birds they see if visiting the reserve, but not to touch them. The swans are ...

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 ...