{"id":98712,"date":"2025-12-29T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:24:08","slug":"investigation-launched-into-swan-deaths-at-lake-eola-park-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98712\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched into swan deaths at Lake Eola Park in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Nearly a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Swans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Swans\/\">swans<\/a> have died at Orlando\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Lake_Eola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Lake_Eola\/\">Lake Eola<\/a> Park since Dec. 23, prompting an investigation into what city officials fear could be an avian flu outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said most of the dead swans were either young or recent additions to the lake\u2019s iconic swan population. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The deaths occurred after the birds had received clean bills of health during the park\u2019s annual swan roundup health screening last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The avian flu has appeared at Lake Eola before, and the virus is a leading suspect in the sudden deaths, according to Sheehan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[FLASHBACK VIDEO: Volunteers round up Lake Eola swans]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials scheduled a necropsy for Monday to determine the exact cause of death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lake Eola Park, located in downtown Orlando, is famous for its swan population, which has been a beloved feature of the park for years.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Nearly a dozen swans have died at Orlando\u2019s Lake Eola Park since Dec. 23, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1610,8411,1335,139,141,140,2546,52016],"class_list":{"0":"post-98712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-lake-eola","9":"tag-lake-eola-park","10":"tag-orange-county","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-strange-florida","15":"tag-swans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98712","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=98712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}