Credit: Matt Davies

I thought it was a typo when I read that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation was recommending reducing the “rogue” 2,200 mute swan population in a state that contains almost 20 million humans. Most every morning I’m stuck behind more than 2,200 cars on the LIE — and a swan sighting would be soothing.

Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

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