Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

Even today the Queen has the right to claim any unmarked mute swan swimming in open water. The Mute Swan – the classic swan seen in British parks – isn’t actually mute, but grunts and hisses.

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In December 2013, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) released a Draft Management Plan for Mute Swans that called for complete eradication of all 2,200 birds from the state ...

Nine mute swans have died at a wetland reserve in East Yorkshire in an outbreak of avian flu. The first swan died at North ...

Six swans, including three cygnets, have been found stabbed and beheaded. Two mute swans were decapitated in Birchmere Park, Thamesmead, south-east London, last month - a third was found mutilated ...

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has confirmed a mute swan found near the Kings Lock Inn on the Trent and Mersey Canal tested positive ...