Photo Friday: Flock of mute swans on serene lake
All photos taken at Kensington Metropolitan Park in Milford, Mich.
Photo by: Jennifer Kalish.
Photo: Jennifer Kalish.
Photo: Jennifer Kalish.
All photos taken at Kensington Metropolitan Park in Milford, Mich.
Photo by: Jennifer Kalish.
Photo: Jennifer Kalish.
Photo: Jennifer Kalish.
Mute swans are zebra Mussels of the sky, an Invasive species.
They do severe damage to our habitat and dominate & outcompete our declining native endangered Trumpeter swans.
All Mute Swans should be exterminated. Every Last one of them.
This will save the Trumpeter Swans from further decline and possible extinction.
Kill Them All.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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People aren’t smart enough to distinguish a trumpeter swan from a mute swan. Killing every “Last one of them” means homicide to all avian life and untold effects on the food chain.
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WoW!!!! Who would have thought that the solution to the competition of habitat for such equally beautiful and in-offensive creatures as 2 species of swans would be to “kill them all” – Because, certainly unless you knew… what would you do. Why is KILLING THE ONLY ANSWER? What is wrong with a plan B – relocate one species, cultivate appropriate habitates,or something else considerate of God’s (or what ever you think may have created these beauties)mastery of creativity. Certainly, the decision to kill all the wolves proved to be an error. Is problem solving so difficult that going beyond Plan A = Kill them All!!! is beyond human intelluctual capacity?
I pray not. Bye bye Dodo bird, you may soon be joined by a bunch of swans of varies species…. after all – they all look alike.
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Bumper sticker “A good Mute Swan is a dead Mute Swan”
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The cinnebtm “Kill them all” is why the planet is so scrw up. You kill them all bud, since you obviously rellish it.
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What is a “cinnebtm”, Karen?
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