NYC bandits kidnap swan in bird-brained scheme, but mystery remains over its fate A man carrying a large swan out of the Frank M. Charles Memorial Park in Howard Beach, Queens on Saturday evening ...

The Rhode Island Department of Enivronmental Managements says a dead swan found on Gaspee Point wasn't shot but might have been attacked by a coyote.

Bird watchers eagerly gathered Saturday morning at Crowder Landing to confirm a rare sighting: two Tundra swans that migrated all the way to Florida. But the bird lovers were horrified when they ...

Our bird plays a starring role in all this owing to a belief in Europe, dating back 2000 years to Roman poet Juvenal, that swans are invariably white. Like purple cows and flying pigs, the black swan ...

Dear Bird Folks, When I was a kid I remember reading "The Ugly Duckling," a story about a baby swan that doesn’t look like its much cuter siblings. I’ve never seen any baby swans. Are they ...

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With millions of bird strikes every year and the many bird species that face endangerment, making an effort to help protect birds can impact the “survival of a species,” Keller said.

A black swan is shown on the water at Tichigan Lake north of Waterford, where area residents and visitors have enjoyed speculating this summer on where the rare bird came from.

Authorities didn’t immediately release the names of the alleged bird-brained bandits, but local officials and activists speculate the bird could have met an unsavory fate as some of the birds… ...