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The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoff Moore / Rex Features ( 1388799f )
Volunteers during the swan round up
The biggest swan round up in the UK
The biggest swan round up in the UK has just taken place early this morning(sat) at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset. (collective noun: a lamentation of swans or herd).
Some 500 wild swans were corralled and slowly driven to a landing point at The Abbotsbury Swannery at the end of the waterway that lies just inside Chesil Beach on the Jurassic coast. Hundreds of volunteers of all ages walked to nearly waist deep in order to help keep the swans moving in the right direction.
The giant birds at this time of year are mainly flightless due to them moulting their feathers so they can be very carefully encouraged up the shallow tidal water to a place where a team of handlers can examine, weigh and ring the birds.
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/VTMYCGLSZ (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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