For hundreds of years, the royal family has laid claim to many of England’s swans. An annual count found a worrisome drop in cygnets along a stretch of the River Thames this year. By Claire ...

After hopes of a recovery, swan numbers were down again this year The annual royal census of swans on the River Thames, known as "swan upping", has found numbers down again. There were only 86 ...

FOX 13's Carla Bayron reports on why experts in Lakeland County are worried that royal swans living in the county's Lake Morton are at risk of developing bird flu. Mitch McConnell announces he'll ...

From strange job titles that used to exist in the royal palaces to unique positions that still exist today, only the royals ...

Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers’ swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners’ swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive.

three pairs of royal swans.* Then angry Iraqis in Bagdad rejected the treaty (TIME, Feb. 2) and forced their chief negotiator, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr, to flee to Trans-Jordan scrunched down in ...

Swans are universally adored in the UK — at least when they are not attacking Dalmatians or wading onto a railway line. Originally, Swan Upping was a royal tradition to mark ownership of mute ...

The ships also held red flags that were branded with Charles’ royal emblem. Through the centuries, British kings and queens would eat the swans as delicacies for lavish banquets. Nowadays ...

The annual royal census of swans on the River Thames, known as "swan upping", has found numbers down again. There were only 86 young swans found in a five-day search of the river between London ...