Zwaandracht maakt macht!
Swans are sometimes deemed a plague in and around the Randstad in the Netherlands particularly when they flock to pastural zones and forage and gobble agricultural crops. On these occassions, farmers or council bureaucrats have called in hunters to cull a few to stave-off the rest and prevent further harvest damage…
In some Dutch cities, swans are shot as they create noise disturbances in residential areas. Swans are also birds who sometimes collide with aeroplanes, occassionally dead swans are found on the terrain of Schiphol, their bodies shattered by the blow of an aircraft or after a crash-landing on a wet runway strip thinking it was a river. As an attempt to use and, in a sense, respect these beautiful creatures, we have asked to collect any fatalities, in the hope to cook the magnificent bird. There have been no untimely deaths so far.