How a Trumpeter Swan With 'Red Lipstick' Became NYC’s Most Talked-About New Resident

If you haven’t already heard the buzz on birding social media, here’s the alert: New York City has logged its first-ever ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Californians can now shoot these swans year-round

The picturesque “wedding swan” can now be legally shot in California year-round. Under a bill signed into law this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the mute swan has been added to the list of nongame birds ...
Appeal-democrat.com

New Legislation Adds Invasive Mute Swan to List of Nongame Birds that May be Hunted

SACRAMENTO - State legislation signed into law earlier this month will allow invasive mute swans to be taken or possessed at any time by those with a valid California hunting license beginning Jan. 1, ...

NYC's first-ever sighting of once near-extinct swan has Brooklyn residents asking for more

"It is a very rare sighting. I've never received any reports of trumpeter swans in New York City." ...
Berkshire Eagle

As April rolls in, so do the migrant birds. The mute swan, once a rare sight, is regularly among them

All around the house, blackbirds sing at the crack of dawn, the flock waxing and waning in size, gathering new members and losing others as they flit, flirt, pair off and wander away to find their own ...
Los Angeles Times

Lake Dwellers Intend to Defend Mute Swans

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 ...
Times-Standard

Californians can now shoot swans year-round without a license

The picturesque “wedding swan” can now be legally shot in California year-round, without a license. Under a bill signed into law this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the mute swan has been added to the ...