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, ...

Kathryn Burton thinks so. If she can prove her case, she can maybe convince people to leave those birds alone in Connecticut today. "We really should be saying 'There is no way they shouldn't be here, ...

(FOX40.COM) — It will soon be legal to hunt and kill mute swans anywhere in California, after Governor Gavin Newsom signed state legislation into law earlier this month. Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hunters will soon be allowed to kill mute swans as part of an effort to cull the “destructive, non-native” species ...

Mute swans have jumped from about 1,500 in 2022 to 12,000+ and threaten Delta wetlands. A bill would let hunters and landowners shoot them; it passed the Assembly and awaits the Senate, drawing animal ...

Six mute swans were brought to Lakeland from Chicago to diversify the Lake Morton swan flock. A local pilot donated the flight, echoing a similar swan transport in 1957 when Queen Elizabeth II gifted ...

Oct. 3 (UPI) --A black swan that took up residence in a British town is being relocated after attempting to drown some of the native mute swans. Cyril Bennis, volunteer swan warden for the town of ...