Mute Swan

Affluent residents and urban parks introduced this European swan to the environs of the Hudson River and Long Island through gardens, pools, and ponds. It has become established primarily along the north Atlantic Coast form southern New England to Virginia and secondarily around the Great Lakes (where there are now coordinated efforts to reduce its numbers). Adults, with their graceful S-curved necks, erected wing feathers, and black-knobbed orange bills, are unmistakable on the water.