Anyone know where

[cupid04]

I can get a book on the history of swan upping, please?

[JoolsTwo]

This any good?

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[Nibble]

I found this http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/swans/upping2.html and this http://news.bbc.co.uk...ashire/plain/A9115139

but not a book

[Grandma_Yiddo]

You learn something every day,I never heard of swan upping before.

[shoota]

There's a swan expert lives in Richmond......allegedly.

[mazie]

Why ?

[Nibble]

cupid, I know you're getting answers, but you might get more if you posted this in the Birdwatching section of Animals and Nature?

[Tilly2]

Oh, I remember her, shoota. What a hoot she was. Where's Swanlover gone?

[mike11111]

It sounds a very dubious practice to me. Isn't this something best kept in plain brown wrappers?

[AHearer]

It's like muffin the mule, mike11111, illegal in most states of the Union.

[cupid04]

Sorry haven't answered straight away and that it's in wrong section. It's a
genuine inquiry. My dad phoned me today and said he'd been invited on one
of these swan-upping thingies. For some reason he thought I'd know lots
about it because I go bird watching. I just wanted to get him a book for a
sort of family joke!

[cupid04]

Thankyou for all of your replies even the funny ones!

[sandyRoe]

Isn't it catching swans and clipping part of the beaks to signify ownership? Though I had thought ER owned all the swans.

[cupid04]

I know all that, I think it goes back to medieval times. They ring and weigh
the cygnets and then put them back. That's about my knowledge. If I'd
known sooner I could have got my dad a book for fathers day which is this
sunday.