A limited number of mute swans would be allowed to stay in upstate New York under the state's latest management plan for the species, released last week after years of controversy over the huge white ...

As if they were taking advantage of their new lease on life, three dozen huge mute swans massed in Irondequoit Bay on Tuesday, feeding, fluffing their feathers and engaging in the affectionate ...

Local band Mute Swan prepares to expand its reach beyond Tucson with its new EP, Ultraviolet, and a west coast tour that begins on Sept. 30. Five songs make up Mute Swan’s second release. Its first ...

The picturesque “wedding swan” can now be legally shot in California year-round. Under a bill signed into law this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the mute swan has been added to the list of nongame birds ...

Regarding the mute swan article (“Outdoors: Governor must show trust in biologists,” Aug. 24), where is the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s reliable, valid, scientific research ...

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 ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Most birders are not fond of mute swans. They are non-native, and like many introduced species, they compete with native species. Some of that competition is a threat, or potential ...

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, ...