Mute swans are an invasive non-native species that pose a growing threat to native animals, habitat and people, according to the DNR. The first pair of feral mute swans was introduced to Michigan ...

Debate on mute swans grows. ... to other ornithological mistakes imported from Europe — the ubiquitous European starling and house sparrow — the swan has a limited range and small population.

Europeans brought mute swans to North America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. They valued swans for the elegance the birds added to parks, ponds and lakes. It spread mostly in the Northeast ...

ALBANY-A New York plan to slaughter or capture every mute swan in the state during the next decade has raised public ire and generated a series of competing bills in the State legislature.

ALBANY—New York’s mute swans are no longer marked for death. Under a newly revised management plan released Monday by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the swans will be ...

On Monday, the department released a new plan and said it will take comments for 45 days. The plan still calls for killing free-ranging mute swans around Lake Ontario, but it allows downstate ...

In this Sept. 14, 2017 photo, an adult mute swan, foreground, and several juvenile swans swim in the duckweed-covered Lullwater in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York. The graceful mute swan is ...