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Mute Swan in Melbourne - help!

To: michael norris <>,
Subject: Mute Swan in Melbourne - help!
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:50:08 +1000
Melbourne Zoo have one Mute Swan in the Japanese Garden area. They probably would not want a bird which had not come from a quarantined area.
Surely if anyone owned a Mute Swan they would know if it went missing?
The aviculturists seem the best bet.
Can it fly or is it pinioned? I gather that the bird is now in protective custody

Someone told me he had seen white swans on the Yarra at Lower Eltham Park but I am quite sure that they are white Domestic Geese.

Anthea Fleming


michael norris wrote:
A Mute Swan has appeared in SE Melbourne and Wildlife Victoria want to know an appropriate place for it to go.

Are there any around here? I imagine a fair sized lake with no Black Swans and perhaps with Mute Swans.

The bird is weak - took an age to walk across a main road - and kids have been throwing stones at it.

Michael Norris


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