Mute Swans

• Main Author: Marks, David R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2018
• Subjects: Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Other Animal Sciences; Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Canada; Hudson; Olor; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nwrcwdmts/16; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nwrcwdmts/article/1016/viewcontent/Mute_Swans_WDM_Technical_Series_February2018_REVISED.pdf

Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are an invasive species originally brought to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for ornamental ponds and lakes, zoos and aviculture collections. Original populations were located in northeastern states along the Hudson Valley but have since expanded...