The City of Orlando is suspending its swan program at Lake Eola. The decision comes after a number of swans were killed earlier this year by bird flu and as the city prepared for major renovations of Lake Eola Park.<\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission began reviewing the care and management of the City\u2019s captive swans. FWC sets guidelines for captive animals \u2013 including swans.<\/p>\n
The city said that upcoming construction associated with a plan to update Lake Eola Park would make meeting those guidelines \u201cincreasingly difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suspension plan includes rehoming the swans, starting with this year\u2019s cygnets \u2013 or young swans \u2013 and their parents along with any eggs and the nesting parents.<\/p>\n
The city says it\u2019s working with licensed partners during the rehoming process, and that not all the swans will go to the same place.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause trumpeter and whooper swans are native to North America, they must be rehomed to Association of Zoos and Aquariums accredited institution per the Migratory Bird Treaty act,\u201d said a city spokesperson.<\/p>\n
After the rehoming process, visitors to the park may still see swans and other waterfowl around the lake as Lake Eola is home to non-captive, wild birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Orlando is suspending its swan program at Lake Eola. The decision comes after a number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-263930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263930","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=263930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}