The annual five-day census of swans belonging to King Charles III has begun along the River Thames. The centuries-old ...

One day at the Richmond swamp, four flashy hooded mergansers dive and dart amid the leafless shrubs growing in the water near the road. Farther back a graceful mute swan, so very large and white, ...

DEM said it appears the mute swan had been shot in the head and body. Agency spokesperson Mike Healey said the department's Division of Fish and Wildlife has a necropsy, ...

MANLIUS, N.Y. (AP) — Elegant white swans have an outsize presence in this upstate New York village measuring less than 2 square miles. Their likeness is on village flags, community centers and ...

This mute swan coming in for a landing is not actually mute, but this species is much quieter than other swans — except when they’re flying. Researchers and swan enthusiasts enjoy the very ...

Mute swans, which are native to Europe and Asia, were released in the United States starting in the late 1800s as an ornamental species. This type of swan is the only one that breeds in Indiana.

Six mute swans were brought to Lakeland from Chicago to diversify the Lake Morton swan flock. A local pilot donated the flight, echoing a similar swan transport in 1957 when Queen Elizabeth II ...

Mute swans in Racine, Kenosha and Waukesha counties have a chance at a reprieve from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources efforts to eradicate the non-native birds. The state's Natural ...

Residents say it’s hard to imagine Manlius without the mute swans that have inhabited a pond in the village center for more than 100 years. Until recently, they didn’t have to.