{"id":353716,"date":"2026-07-27T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:08:24","slug":"orlando-completes-rehoming-of-lake-eola-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353716\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando completes rehoming of Lake Eola swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando&#8217;s Families, Parks and Recreation Department successfully completed the relocations of all of its Lake Eola swans to new homes Saturday, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Park rangers, animal handlers and staff safely moved 42 Mute, Australian Black, Black-necked, Whooper and Trumpeter swans to a new sanctuary, where they were reunited with the swans moved from Lake Eola earlier this year, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The city started removing the swans earlier this summer in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/news\/2026\/01\/05\/21-birds-death-at-lake-eola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dozens of swans dying from avian influenza<\/a>\u00a0during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Park visitors might still see wild swans, the spokesperson said, because they migrate there naturally through urban waterways.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement earlier this year, the city said, &#8220;Responsibly rehoming the flock is the most compassionate and responsible step for their long-term health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orlando&#8217;s Families, Parks and Recreation Department successfully completed the relocations of all of its Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,274,770,1563,2204,115,1053,1335,768,139,141,140,275,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-353716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-environment","tag-instagram-n13","tag-news","tag-orange","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-fl","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353716","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=353716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}