Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:28:22 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Katharine Patterson Subject: mute swans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================