Mute Swans in New York

Initially introduced in New York's lower Hudson Valley and Long Island, mute swans were kept by breeders as domestics on the ponds of private estates. The ...

Swans: Natives and Invasives - New York State Parks Blog

Mute swans are easily discriminated from native tundra and trumpeter swans by their orange beaks. (Photo Credit- State Parks) Mute swans are ...

Mute Swans in New York: A final Management Plan to Prevent ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) plan for mute swan management in New York outlines DEC's strategies to contain and ...

A New York village known for its majestic mute swans ... - AP News

The upstate New York village of Manlius is known for the majestic white swans that have inhabited a village pond for more than 100 years.

Mute Swan - Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau County

Mute swans are protected by the New York State Environmental Conservation Law and it is unlawful to handle or harm the swans, their nests or ...

A village known for its majestic mute swans faces ... - NBC 4 New York

A village known for its majestic mute swans faces a difficult choice after one is killed. The state says the mute swans are an invasive species and wants the ...

Is NY DEC quietly wiping out mute swans? - Friends of Animals

Friends of Animals is alarmed that the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation has killed 563 mute swans in the last five years. According ...

Invasives | New York State Parks and Historic Sites Blog

Mute swans are highly territorial and will aggressively defend their large territories against other birds—including native waterfowl. This ...

THE NYS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ...

THE BELOVED MUTE SWAN IS A PROHIBITED INVASIVE SPECIES. ... Sadly, the New York State Bureau of Wildlife (BOW) has passed regulations to kill all upstate mute ...

Swans in NY : r/Hunting - Reddit

I believe Maryland is one of the nearby states that recently opened a mute swan season and saw some success, but other states have been slow to ...

Mute swans would be spared in upstate NY under new plan

Most mute swans would be spared in upstate New York under new DEC plan ... A limited number of mute swans would be allowed to stay in upstate New ...

Swan song: N.Y. wants invasive waterfowl to take a bow - USA Today

There are 2,200 mute swans in New York, the DEC estimates, mostly on Long Island with lesser numbers in the lower Hudson Valley and New York ...

New York Wants to Banish a Symbol of Love: Mute Swans

the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has declared war on mute swans — the jumbo, snow-white waterfowl with the long, ...

Most mute swans would be spared in new plan

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.

Opinion | Speaking Up for the Mute Swan - The New York Times

Because of their limited diet, mute swans are a sentinel species, concentrating contaminants in their livers and revealing the presence of ...

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) - Long Island Invasive Species ... - LIISMA

The release in the 1910's started with a wild population of about 500 birds. New York has increased in population size to about 3000 birds. The swans are ...

Will the Mute Swans in New York be killed for being members of the ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) approved a plan to eradicate all free living Mute Swans from the state by 2025.

Protesters make noise over New York plan to kill off mute swans

GooseWatch NYC said it has collected 20,000 signatures on an online petition to scrap the proposal. State Senator Tony Avella of Queens has ...

Speaking up wins a reprieve for mute swans in New York state

New York governor Andrew Cuomo on November 28, 2016 endorsed into law a bill by Brooklyn assembly member Steven Cymbrowitz which imposes a two-year moratorium.

Culls effective for reducing mute swans in New Jersey - Nichols - 2024

Mute swans (Cygnus olor) have increased in New Jersey at ~7%/yr since the mid-1980s with the population peaking at 1,890 mute swans by 2005.