The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is asking for information from the public concerning the killing of more than a dozen swans in Stevens County. The agency says the killings happened between Dec. 16 and 17, 2023 in the west-central Minnesota county. Nearly all birds native to the United States, including their nests […]
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Nearly 700 Swans Mysteriously Found Dead at Nature Reserve Near Site of Soviet-Era Nuclear Plant
Animal specialists in Kazakhstan are investigating the mysterious deaths of more than 600 swans whose corpses have been discovered in recent weeks at a nature preserve, near the site of a Soviet-era nuclear plant. The south Asian country’s Lake Karakol is home to a wide array of threatened wildlife – with the nation’s president describing […]
Man who ‘started on a swan’ insists he grabbed it by the neck and dragged it through the park ‘AFTER it attacked his child’ – as video shows moment he’s confronted by passer-by
A man who allegedly started on a swan insisted he grabbed it by the neck and dragged it through the park only after it attacked his child. Footage shows the man carrying the bird through the park near Caerphilly Castle in south Wales on Sunday afternoon, with the swan flapping its wings in a bid […]
Crimes Against Waterfowl Risen 59% in Last Two Years In The UK
A wave of alarming crimes against waterfowl, including swans, ducks, and geese, is making headlines across England and Wales. From 2020 to 2022, these violent incidents have risen by 59%, as per police data. Unfortunately, the reality might be even worse, as these reported crimes could merely be the ‘tip of the iceberg’. The attacks […]
Bewick’s swan population vanishing in Britain amid the climate crisis
Twenty years ago, before I moved to Somerset, a flock of Bewick’s swans would spend the winter months on the moor near my home. Elsewhere on the levels, flocks of several hundred could be found. Yet in the years since I have lived here, I have seen these elegant birds just a handful of times. […]
Bird flu fears grow after spate of mysterious UK swan deaths
A spate of baffling swan deaths is strongly suspected to be caused by a virulent new strain of avian flu sweeping across Britain. Dying swans were found spinning in circles and discharging blood from their nostrils on Ulverston canal, Cumbria. Swan rescuers have taken in more than 25 dying birds in Worcestershire and nine swans […]
The Lore of Swans
If swans we be So loyally As we swim And create Our family. Our love a Flower To weather What may. Together we Share Each brand New day. And now you want to hunt us down. Humans we don’t want you around!
British conservationist takes to the skies for 4,500-mile migration with swans
A British conservationist took to the skies in a motorised paraglider on Monday morning for the start of a daring 4,500-mile expedition across the Russian Arctic that will attempt to shed light on the decline of the UK’s smallest, shyest species of swan. For the next 10 weeks, Sacha Dench, 41, will act as a […]