A mute swan typically has only one mate in its lifetime. Pairs usually don’t break up, often only seeking a new partner if their mate dies. Three Swan Species Live in North America Only three species ...

Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from Alaska, beginning in 1987. Carrol Henderson was the Department of Natural ...

The trumpeter swan is one of the greatest conservation successes of the last century. The majestic trumpeter swan, North America’s largest waterfowl, was once hunted to the brink of extinction. Thanks ...

In early morning at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, we can see the far shore of the wetland, almost one half mile away, through a path of trimmed open space where we have a seep or ...

A trumpeter swan soars through the sky, its wings outstretched and backlit by the sun, rendered iridescent. It descends and skids onto a shallow pool of wetland waters. Beautiful! The only swan native ...

KEWANEE -- Oblivious to the history they were making, a pair of black-billed and white-feathered trumpeter swans splashed into the 58-acre lake at Henry County's Johnson Sauk Trail State Park Monday ...

WILBURN -- A small crowd has gathered on a cold, overcast Monday morning in the gravel parking lot of a little lake on Hiram Road in Cleburne County. They have come to see trumpeter swans, and the ...

Trumpeter swans challenge each other Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, on Hole-in-the-Day Bay on Gull Lake north of Brainerd. The large birds have moved from the shallow water of North Long Lake after a thin ...

They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from ...