Lakeland's first pair of mute swans, or white, were received as ... motorized boots with one driver and a swan wrangler scooping up swans from the water using wide nets. Additional staff members ...

Swans around the world have been admired for centuries. Of seven species known worldwide, only two native species are ...

Speaking to the Advertiser in 2022, park rangers at Coate Water said: “Since it’s been here it has bred with a mute swan and had several cygnets but these all turned out white in colour.

Swans have been a philosopher’s favourite since the ancient Greeks, their unearthly whiteness inspiring theories about the essential nature of things: if it wasn’t white, it wasn’t a swan.