Swans in Hamburg brought in for the winter

Olaf Niess, this year's swan father of Hamburg, and a group of volunteers plucked swan on the river Alster with a flurry of plumage, binding their feet and wings in preparation for the trip to their warmer winter home, on November 20, 2018.Hamburg has been working on winter protection of swans for 300 years. Every year, the city council will select a swan father in charge of it. [Photo: VCG]