{"id":201504,"date":"2025-10-10T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201504\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:29:10","slug":"asbo-swan-finds-wife-to-be-in-new-devon-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201504\/","title":{"rendered":"ASBO swan finds &#8216;wife-to-be&#8217; in new Devon home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A black swan which was removed from a historic town after spending nine months terrorising other birds and tourists has already found his &#8220;wife-to-be&#8221; at a new home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Reggie, nicknamed The Terminator in Stratford, was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ygxmy5jmdo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moved from Stratford-upon-Avon to Dawlish, Devon. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Donald Phillips, from the Dawlish Waterfowl Centre, said Reggie had &#8220;settled in very well&#8221; and had already found a mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He explained: &#8220;I&#8217;d put him into the enclosure with two females and he just walked up to them and they sort of followed him around and there was no aggression at all &#8230; he was just as good as gold.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Mr Phillips said he believed Reggie had been behaving badly in Stratford because he was &#8220;very frustrated&#8221; and the attention he was getting was just &#8220;making him more that way inclined &#8230; a bit aggressive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;I had two females ready for him when he came down &#8230; I selected one of the females and I moved him on to a farm where they&#8217;ve got a big lake and ducks and he settled in very well. I think he&#8217;s picked his swan, his wife-to-be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black swan which was removed from a historic town after spending nine months terrorising other birds and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-201504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}