{"id":193808,"date":"2025-10-11T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:37:11","slug":"swan-who-terrorised-tourists-settles-down-after-finding-a-wife-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193808\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan who terrorised tourists settles down after finding a &#8216;wife&#8217; in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reggie was moved over 150 miles from his old home<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_antisocial-blac-1440715.jpg\" alt=\"Reggie the black swan with his new 'wife', a female black swan at Dawlish Waterfowl Centre\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Reggie the black swan with his new &#8216;wife&#8217;, a female black swan at Dawlish Waterfowl Centre(Image: Donald Phillips\u00a9 SWNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">An antisocial black swan who was moved across the country to Devon after terrorising tourists has finally calmed down &#8211; after finding a &#8216;wife&#8217; in his new home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">Reggie &#8211; nicknamed The Terminator &#8211; had been tormenting people and birds in Stratford-upon-Avon for nine months. The bird was then captured by swan warden Cyril Bennis and moved 150 miles down to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlive.com\/all-about\/dawlish\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dawlish<\/a>, Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">In his new home there is a flock of black swans, and Reggie has already picked up a new wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">Donald Phillips, from the Dawlish Waterfowl Centre where Reggie has been rehomed, said Reggie had &#8220;settled in very well&#8221; and had already found a mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">He said he had two females ready for him. After selecting the right swan for him, Mr Phillips moved him on to a farm where they have a lake and ducks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">Mr Phillips said: &#8220;He has not been aggressive at all. He has been very friendly and just making himself at home. He already picked his wife-to-be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"devonlive\">Mr Phillips believes Reggie had been behaving badly in his former home because he was &#8220;very frustrated&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reggie was moved over 150 miles from his old homeReggie the black swan with his new &#8216;wife&#8217;, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[44081,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-193808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-dawlish","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}