{"id":133730,"date":"2026-01-27T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:35:30","slug":"orlando-residents-demand-action-after-bird-flu-kills-dozens-of-swans-at-lake-eola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133730\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando residents demand action after bird flu kills dozens of swans at Lake Eola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some Orlando residents are demanding more oversight for swans at Lake Eola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said as many as 29 swans have died in the last month, due to the bird flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Advocates are now calling on the city to provide cleaner habitats and to improve infrastructure for the swans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At a city council meeting on Monday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer promised to explore ways to improve the swan program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Orlando residents are demanding more oversight for swans at Lake Eola. Officials said as many as 29&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8132,1610,139,141,140,52016],"class_list":{"0":"post-133730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-buddy-dyer","9":"tag-lake-eola","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-swans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}