It's the first time since 1957 that white mute swans have arrived in Lakeland by plane. That was the year Queen Elizabeth II gifted two swans to the city.

Six new swans will call Lake Morton home, so the current flock, who descended from royal swans in England, can stay healthy and resilient.

The bird of ballets and picturesque waterscape paintings, mute swans are elegant, graceful and ... invasive? They were originally brought to North America from Europe to keep in ponds and gardens.

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 ...

While mallards tolerate avian influenza well, it is fatal to mute swans; the dead birds can serve to alert people to the ...

The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute ... these beautiful birds. Yet their loveliness masks the ...

Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are large waterfowl that ... Because swans are such large birds, they need between 80-100 feet of runway to build up enough speed to take off. Once aloft, they require ...

and the history of art is littered with pictures of ravishingly beautiful birds; even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci had a go. Today the beautiful mute swan is the animal found on Valentine ...

Knowing where, when and for how long mallard ducks – natural carriers of avian influenza – stop and rest as they migrate can ...