A black swan has been removed from a historic town after it spent nine months “terrorising” other birds and tourists. <\/p>\n
The bird – named Reggie by locals – was captured by swan warden Cyril Bennis in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and will be rehomed at a centre in Devon. <\/p>\n
Mr Bennis said the capture was “what has to be done” after the bird’s behaviour, which included disrupting nesting swans. <\/p>\n
A town resident added: “He’s terrorised everyone else but we love him so it will be sad to see him go, but it’s probably better for the river that he’s gone.” <\/p>\n
Mr Bennis said Reggie had attempted to drown the native mute swans and had disrupted the nesting swans on the river. <\/p>\n
Reggie has since been taken to a vets before he will be rehomed at the Dawlish Waterfowl Centre in Devon. <\/p>\n
“It’s the best thing for him,” said Mr Bennis.<\/p>\n
“He’ll have so many mates he’ll be saying ‘why in heaven’s name did I spend nine months in Stratford-upon-Avon?'” <\/p>\n
“But its people and its visitors will be very sad.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black swan has been removed from a historic town after it spent nine months “terrorising” other birds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-54827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}