Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mute swan swims past its likeness in the form of a pedal boat at Lake Balboa in Van Nuys in July 2018. (Los Angeles Times) ...

Over the objections of animal welfare groups, Gov. Gavin Newsom last year signed legislation allowing property owners and those with hunting licenses to shoot the nonnative, destructive swans. The ...

Mute swans, an invasive European/Asian species introduced here in the late 1800s, are a problem. A BIG problem. Five were released in Maryland in 1962. A few years ago, we had 4,000 of the nasty ...

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, ...

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 ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. On an early August morning, it didn’t ...

According to the DNR, mute swans are an "aggressive invasive species doing real damage to our local wetlands." ...

Annually, these birds eat up to nine million pounds of Chesapeake Bay aquatic vegetation. They also scare or kill native terns, mallards and Canada geese. A year-round unprotected status/open season ...

(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 story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s once exponentially growing population of invasive mute swans has fallen by half, less than a year after a ...

On an early August morning, it didn't take long to spot the first pair of huge white swans with orange and black bills and graceful, curving necks as they swam in the marsh along the side of a Solano ...