How to catch 859 swans

This is how (and why) I caught 859 swans during Abbotsbury Swannery's biennial swan round up. Subscribe for more videos about science and wildlife.

00:00 Intro
00:13 Where do you find so many swans?
01:18 Don't all swans belong to the Queen?
02:27 Why don't the swans fly away?
03:11 Catching the swans
04:42 Can't swans break a man's arm?
05:35 Why are catching so many swans?
08:43 How do you sex a swan?
10:27 Was it worth it?
12:55 Feathery friends

A huge thank you to Charlie Wheeler from Abbotsbury Swannery for letting me volunteer in the swan round up and film the whole event: abbotsbury-tourism.co.uk/swannery/

Edited by Joolzenda and Sally Le Page
Additional videography by Phil Caisley
Supported by my patrons: Sontag, TimLuq

Links to swan research papers:
Antibody responses: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb…
Population Structure: sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/152…
Age at reproduction: pnas.org/content/pnas/103/17/6587.full.pdf
Selection on clutch size: sci-hub.se/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/do…
Prolactin in avian molt: sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc…

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Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist and science YouTuber. The aim of these videos is to bring science further into popular culture by making science videos that make you laugh, make you feel and make you think.