swan upping

English
Swan upping on the Thames, illustration for 1875, Henry Robert Robertson, Life on the upper Thames

Noun

swan upping (uncountable)

  1. An annual swan census in Britain in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, marked, and released.
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