Police say a man was found dead and burned over the weekend . Each year , a census is carried out of the swans on stretches of the Thames in the counties of Middlesex , Surrey , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire and Oxfordshire , it says . All mute swans in England and Wales belong to Queen Elizabeth II . ` ` It 's an act of vandalism which ' n't happen , '' says swan ##s ##wan .
Police say a man was found dead and burned over the weekend . All mute swans in England and Wales belong to Queen Elizabeth II . ` ` It 's an act of vandalism which ' n't happen , '' says swan ##s ##wan .