Picture James Hardisty. A Mute Swan preening its plumage on the lake at Peasholm Park, Scarborough It was only in 2023 that a major outbreak of the flu killed 1,000 black-headed gulls at the reserve.

Take a bow, the black swan. The sole male appeared on the Avon at Stratford near to the Fisherman’s car park a week before Christmas. Its unexpected colouring – black rather than the white mute swans ...

The Mute Swan is a majestic waterbird with pure white plumage, a long S-shaped neck, and a distinctive orange bill with a black base and knob. Their legs are black with webbed feet. Males (cobs) are ...

Cheshire Wildlife Helpers, a wild animal support group, say as well as the Middlewich mute swans, a black-headed gull – classified as ‘in decline’ by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - ...

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A black swan, rarely seen in the UK, has been spotted in Stratford. Shakespeare's hometown typically attracts huge numbers of white swans on the River Avon, with an estimated 80 thought to be ...

Nassim Taleb, who wrote the book The Black Swan, warned that markets should expect an even worse shock than the one that sank stocks after the release of DeepSeek's AI technology. Nassim Taleb ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All but two of 32 cygnets hatched at a black swan refuge in South Perth that cost nearly $2 million to build – but is the subject ...

The area is ideal for mute swans, one of the most common breeds in the UK, to congregate in large groups. Matthew Capper, from Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, said: "The winter flocks often have ...