How to Use mute swan in a Sentence
mute swan
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What makes mute swans so destructive?
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Sacbee.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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These are mute swans, native to Europe and Asia.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Some of California’s mute swans likely came in the same way.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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The mute swan population exploded in just a few years.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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In recent weeks, avian flu has killed 37 birds — 29 of them royal mute swans — in the downtown park.
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Hal Boedeker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
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Despite the nongame classification, there’s nothing stopping a hunter from eating a mute swan.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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So far, 37 birds have died at the lake from the highly transmissible virus, including 29 mute swans.
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Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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Charisma matters with invasive species On the East Coast, mute swans have been around since before the turn of the last century.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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With the passage of AB 764, the mute swan joins the starling and the English sparrow as bird species that can be shot at any time.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Supporters of the swan-killing legislation say reducing the number of mute swans should be fairly easy since the giant white birds are easy to spot, identify and kill.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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The mute swan population in New York has stayed steady at around 2,000 to 3,400 birds.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Per the Press, in addition to geese, ducks and common mergansers have been found dead at Georgica Pond, along with a mute swan and a seagull.
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Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
10 Mar. 2026
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Lola, a roughly 5-year-old mute swan, was rescued from Lake Eola, where she was rejected by her mother as a cygnet before being rescued by park rangers.
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Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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In 2008, California banned anyone without a special permit from keeping mute swans as pets or from importing them into the state.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Those who kill a mute swan are encouraged to report it to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife so the agency can keep tabs on invasive species.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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The intent is to reduce the population of the non-native mute swan, a large, voracious and territorial bird that competes for resources with native waterfowl and other wetland species.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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The mute swan is a formidable rival to California’s most common native swan, the much smaller tundra swan, which is also differentiated by its straight neck and black beak.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Since 2008, California has required a permit for importing or keeping mute swans, but the wild population has still exploded.
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Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Despite their undeniable beauty, Weaver, the state waterfowl coordinator, sees mute swans similarly to nutria.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Most of the mute swans are in the Suisun Marsh, a sprawling complex of public wetlands, agricultural lands and private duck-hunting clubs on the outskirts of the Bay Area near Fairfield.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Notably, Maryland was able to knock the mute swan population down from around 5,000 birds in the early 2000s to around 200 by 2010.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Arguing that claims of mute swans’ environmental damage and aggression are overblown, Friends of Animals and other groups opposed killing them decades ago, after Mid-Atlantic states proposed eradication when their populations began expanding dramatically in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Calmatters,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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