Neighbors form human chain for rare rescue of Australian black swans found on Long Island

Two Australian black swans were found in Southold, New York after local Long Island residents formed a human chain to keep the birds safe.

"I got a call Wednesday morning with someone saying, ‘Hey I looked out my window and I see these swans,'" John Di Leonardo, president of Long Island Orchestrating for Nature, told FOX News. Di Leonardo was more than two hours away at the time. "Neighbors jumped in kayaks and stayed with the swans waiting for me to come and catch them."  Tony Bellissimo spotted the birds with their bright red bills earlier this week outside his home in Corey Creek and initially thought they were covered in oil from a potential oil spill, but after doing some research, he realized they were rare Australian swans, the Suffolk Times reported.  The exotic birds were also reportedly seen in Florida and in ponds in the Newport Beach, California-area last year.