Category: Swans
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Last week’s post was of swans, mayhem, and the devotion of a husband and father. Afterward my attention was drawn to a recent incident in Britain, in which authorities felt compelled to relocate a family of swans. The father of the family, Hissing Sid, had maintained a desirable territory on the River Chelmer, Essex, for…
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Earlier this year, a wildlife rescue center took in a mute swan (Cygnus olor). Mute swans aren't native birds. In North American we have tundra swans, whooper swans, and trumpeter swans. Some people buy mute swans, the lovely birds of classic European imagery, and place them on ornamental water to make it even more ornamental.…
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