Abby, the female mute swan at Bubeck Park, is on the nest for the second time this year. It is the first time the swan has laid a second clutch of eggs in a year. In May, five cygnets hatched in ...

In early morning at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, we can see the far shore of the wetland, almost one half mile away, through a path of trimmed open space where we have a seep or ...

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: March is the beginning of peak nesting season for Indiana’s state-endangered trumpeter swan. During the nesting season, ...

Michael Bean, of Skaneateles, is a wildlife biologist and longtime caretaker of the swans in the village of Manlius swan pond. The mute swan is native to Europe and Asia. Humans met the mute swan ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. — The swans that inhabit Grace Graham’s poetry are white as fresh linen. They glide across Phantom Lake like elegant apparitions, paddling webbed feet into stanzas she writes before ...

A pair of mute swans swam in slow circles in the stinking water of the Chicago River near the Diversey bridge. It was an incongruous scene–the majestic birds floating like huge white flowers in the ...

Maryland natural resource officials should be allowed to kill mute swans if other options fail to stop them from threatening native birds and eating underwater grasses critical to the Chesapeake Bay's ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Months after environmental officials killed a swan they determined to be aggressive, Connecticut is taking steps to better inform the public about nesting sites so people can ...