Date:         Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:28:22 EDT
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From:         Katharine Patterson <Kpatter931@AOL.COM>
Subject:      mute swans
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I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. William Sladen speak to my class at Hopkins
tonight. Dr. Sladen contributed a great deal of research and teaching about
migration routes of geese and swans to the research project depicted in the
movie "Fly Away Home", and is continuing to experiment with teaching
migration to Trumpeter Swans and Whooping Cranes. His solution to the Mute
Swan problem is to one that "no one has listened to", but one that he has had
great success with in his studies. He recommends that the swans be captured,
pinioned and then released in "celibate pairs", (males with males, females
with females), so they will not reproduce. They live out their lives
contentedly and die with no offspring. Can we get anyone to listen?

Katharine Patterson
Butler, MD

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