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msemma | 09:52 Tue 19th Jun 2007 | Animals & Nature
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Do all swans belong to the queen? Or is it just mute swans?
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The Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open waters but the Queen only exercises her right on stretches of the Thames and its surrounding tributaries.

The birds are marked according to ownership during Swan Upping.

http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsor1999 /upping.html
A swan was arrested for stealing bread but did not say anything in his defence. Why was this?


He was a mute swan!

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