A mute swan glides across the water with its young cygnets nearby. Known for their elegance, mute swans are protective parents and symbolize beauty in wetland habitats.

Animal rights activists are targeting the Genoa Township Board of Trustee's Monday meeting to protest what they contend is a planned "swan massacre." Noting that the birds — an invasive species in ...

The killing of mute swan Faye and theft of her four cygnets from a Manlius swan pond set off a maelstrom of outrage and grief. Just as mute swans became a huge news story, something happened to ...

Brooklyn’s mute swans finally have a voice in Albany. Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D–Sheepshead Bay) has announced that he will work to convince the state Department of Environmental Conservation to ...

Those large white birds with the curved necks and orange bills are both beautiful and graceful, while adding to the scenery of any lake. But don't be fooled by their splendor, Mute swans can be ugly, ...

Kathryn Burton tells me that mute swans have been around for 10,000 years. John White, leader of the ill-fated Roanoke colony, made drawings that clearly show mute swans in North Carolina, Burton says ...

Maryland's majestic white mute swans have dwindled in number from 4,000 to just a few hundred, and a sharply divided state panel recommended yesterday that the invasive species be eliminated to ...

Maryland mute swans lost in court. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected an argument by the Humane Society that asked to overturn a 2004 District of Columbia Circuit Court ...

Waterford Township — State officials have eliminated poisoning as the cause of death of some mute swans at a small suburban Detroit lake and put the blame on a disease caused by a parasite.