As It Happens 6:34 Why Reggie the black swan has been evicted from William Shakespeare's hometown

By day, Reggie the black swan seemed innocent enough.

Residents and tourists, alike, were taken by the dark-feathered, red-nosed waterfowl who suddenly appeared in the picturesque British town of Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, about nine months ago.

People would stop to watch him on their morning strolls, swimming majestically and peacefully alongside the town's native flock of mute swans.

"In the evening time, it had a different side to it," Cyril Bennis, the town's volunteer swan warden, told host Nil Kӧksal.

"Listen, it was a nightmare. An absolute ruddy nightmare."

Trying to drown the locals

While locals bestowed their newest feathered friend with th

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