A bizarre crime caught on camera led to the arrests of a group of suspects accused of removing a swan from a park in Queens ...

Under the Department of Environmental Conservation’s new mute swan management plan, individuals or local governments can save swans by funding their captivity in a licensed facility. The stipulations ...

Mute swans arrived in the U.S. starting in the 1800s as decocrative birds for ponds and small lakes. ... submerging head and neck to feed. They also dine in farm fields on wheat and other grains.

The chicks' parents set up home in the reserve last year, but failed to breed because they were too young. Alex Lister, NWT ...

Prospect Park's swan family draws crowds but raises concerns about wildlife-human interaction and invasive species issues.

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, ...

A dead swan has been found shot in the head at a popular beauty spot. Members of the public found the female bird last week on the East Chevington nature reserve in Druridge Bay, Northumberland.

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, ...

A stunningly elegant bird, the mute swan is our heaviest flighted bird, and in spite of its name is not silent but just less noisy than other swan species. They make various honks, snorts, and if ...

Mute swans, like all wild birds, are legally protected by the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. A dead swan has been found shot in the head at a popular beauty spot.