The University of Nevada, Reno is investigating the death of Zeus, a male mute swan that lived at Manzanita Lake on the school's campus. The investigation follows online social media allegations ...

The bird of ballets and picturesque waterscape paintings, mute swans are elegant, graceful and ... invasive? They were originally brought to North America from Europe to keep in ponds and gardens.

The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute ... these beautiful birds. Yet their loveliness masks the ...

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While mallards tolerate avian influenza well, it is fatal to mute swans; the dead birds can serve to alert people to the presence of bird flu that is otherwise hard to detect in the wild.

and the history of art is littered with pictures of ravishingly beautiful birds; even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci had a go. Today the beautiful mute swan is the animal found on Valentine ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced in June its intent to eradicate the state’s mute swan population by “reducing it to as low a level as can be achieved.” The DNR blames the ...

Bird flu has been reported at an East Yorkshire nature reserve. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust said the outbreak was affecting mute swans at the North Cave Wetlands centre near Hull. It added it was ...

While mallards tolerate avian influenza well, it is fatal to mute swans; the dead birds can serve to alert people to the presence of bird flu that is otherwise hard to detect in the wild.

The Animal Protection Association Austria has filed charges against a hunter in Garsten (Upper Austria). Bird lovers accuse ...

This past December, mute swans in New York finally gained protection under legislation ... released a draft management plan in 2013 calling for eradication of all 2,200 birds by 2025 (see AWI ...