This “naughty” black swan was expelled from the hometown of Shakespeare

During the day, Reggie the black swan seemed quite innocent.

Residents and tourists were taken by red -feathered aquatic birds with dark feathers that He suddenly appeared In the picturesque British city of Stratford-Upon-Avon, a place of birth of William Shakespeare, about nine months ago.

People stopped to look at him during their morning walks, swimming majestically and peacefully alongside the herd of dumb swans native of the city.

“In the evening, there was a different side,” said Cyril Bennis, the city’s volunteer swan goalkeeper, told In this case Nile Kӧksal host.

“Listen, it was a nightmare. An absolute coarse nightmare.”

Try to drown residents

While the inhabitants offered their most recent feathered friend with the nickname of Reggie, Bennis calls him something else: Mr. Terminator.

This is because, says Bennis, he terrorized the population of native dumb swans.

While Reggie seemed to get along with the other swans at first, once he got comfortable in new excavations, “it was at this moment that he was starting to become a bit mean.”

Bennis says he would intimidate males, break the couples established for a long time and try to mate with women. He even used violence against his swan colleagues.

“Violence, yes. Try to drown them,” said Bennis. “Quite horrible, really. And it’s natural, you know. These animals are wild animals and they are not ornaments.”

Stratford-andpon-Avon houses a herd of approximately 60 dumb swans. You can recognize them by their white plumage, their orange and black beaks and the long -shaped passes in S.

Not only are silent swans protected in the United Kingdom, but these are crown properties. Each unmarked silent swan and therefore no. belongs to the king.

Black swans, on the other hand, are from Australia. According to BBC Wildlife MagazineThey were first brought to Europe at the turn of the 18th century and reside mainly in ponds and private parks.

But from time to time, they escape the private collections and fly away to mingle with the populations of wild swans in Great Britain.

“He was trying to mate with silent swans, and it’s not good,” said Bennis. “It is not good for ecology, and it would not go well with His Majesty.”

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After consulting the Crown representative at Stratford-on-Avon, Bennis decided that it was time to struggle with Reggie outside the pond and send him on the way.

Reggie, however, had other ideas.

“This particular man was not impressed,” said Bennis. “I managed to get him out of the water, and he fought as a tooth and nails.”

Bennis finally managed to calm the bird and put it in a bag.

“I am a little painful today in my little episode,” he said.

The black swan “has a wonderful and wonderful rest period,” said Bennis, recovering from his trauma in a local enclosure and nourished as many treats as he can eat.

“He eats us outside the house and the house.”

The city obtained a place for Reggie at Dawish Waterfowl Center in Devon, EnglandHousing one of the largest black swan populations in the country.

Bennis, however, must remain behind and face the anger of the public. Despite all his problems, said Bennis, Reggie was extremely popular.

The desperate swan goalkeeper who has become Wrangler says that he cannot do a race in town without someone stopped him and demanded that he banned their beloved Reggie. Local children, he says, are particularly distraught.

“The question is:” Why? For what? Why, sir? Why are you doing this? “” He said. “I will be well known (as) the man who removed the black swan.”

When asked if Mr. Terminator “would come back”, like his film namesake, Bennis immediately replied: “Heaven above, no, he will not.”

“Listen, I learned my lesson with black swans,” he said. “I learned my lesson with the fact that once they come, they leave.”