[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

The Mute Swan,
> which we all know from the fairy tales, is not so
> nice, they are very territorial and can be quite
> vicious! They were introduced to this country in the
> late 1800s after the first settlers had killed off the
> native species such as the Whooper and Trumpeter Swan,
> just now making a comeback in the Midwest and North.
>
> Mute Swan tastes much like goose, though a bit on the
> gamey side. Eat as many as you can, exotic invasives
> that they are, they depopulate a body of water of any
> other waterfowl! They will kill ducks and ducklings in
> short order, which is one reason you find them on
> artificial ponds in apartments. Course some of that is
> being eliminated once you have a Swan/human
> interaction gone amiss!!
>
Indeed IIRC Maryland and/or Delaware has such a problem with them in coastal
regions that they are attempting eradication or failing that severe
population control measures.

Daniel