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, ...

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 ...

The picturesque “wedding swan” can now be legally shot in California year-round. Under a bill signed into law this month by ...

ALBANY -- Another year, another attempt to save the mute swans. Lawmakers said they've reintroduced legislation to stop the state from killing off the big birds as “prohibited invasive species" after ...

What does an ugly duckling grow up to become in New York? A dead swan, that’s what — if the state gets its way! Albany has declared the mute swan an enemy of the state and plans to eradicate the ...

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 ...

Bird advocates are goosed up — and flying in different directions in response to a state plan to eliminate wild mute swans within the next decade. Activist group GooseWatch NYC points to the plan, ...

Sheepshead Bay’s swan enthusiasts can save their beloved birds — but it’ll cost them. More than a year after the Department of Environmental Conservation announced its plan to exterminate all of the ...