Appeal-Democrat

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 ...
Action News Now

Invasive Mute Swan added to list of non-game birds that can be taken in California

Mute swans are not protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as they were introduced from Europe in the ...

'Destructive' swans in the crosshairs as California allows hunting

Hunters will soon be allowed to kill mute swans as part of an effort to cull the "destructive, non-native" species statewide, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Newser on MSN

California to Allow Hunters to Kill Mute Swans

California hunters will soon have the green light to kill mute swans, a move state officials say is aimed at controlling a ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Mute swans call Andover Lake their own

ANDOVER - "Ann" and "Dover" are nightmare neighbors -- at least to the Canada geese who used to call Andover Lake home. "Ann" and "Dover" are the tentative names of a pair of mute swans the village ...

English town ejects black swan that tried to drown local birds

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A black swan that took up residence in a British town is being relocated after attempting to drown some of ...