🦢 BLACK SWAN EATS REEDS WITH CYGNET ON BACK 🦢 One of Dawlish's black swans tries to eat reeds on The Brook – with a little cygnet on her back. Both of Kimba's cygnets tried to climb on board, but only one succeeded. The mother then tried to feast on reeds but struggled to snap them off. The cygnets became the newest members of Dawlish's famous black swan community when they hatched last Monday. I saw them on Friday, when they were four days old. Parents Kimba and Bert kept a close eye on the c

Did you know Yellowstone releases trumpeter swan cygnets into the wild? In 1919, when swans were first documented in the park, they were considered the last population in the lower 48. By 2010, only seven swans were resident in Yellowstone. Employees like Doug Smith and park partner Bill Long at Wyoming Wetlands Society are trying to prevent their extirpation in the short term in two ways: 1) incubating eggs in captivity and releasing day-old cygnets near wild adults, and 2) raising cygnets to 1

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