Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an increase ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Bird in Focus is the Trumpeter Swan. The Trumpeter Swan is the largest native waterfowl in New York State. Males weigh over 26 pounds, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — 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 ...

IOWA (KCAU) — Last year will go in the record books for trumpeter swans in the Hawkeye State. In 2025, Iowa’s trumpeter swans attempted a record 158 nests. Native to Iowa, and the state’s largest ...

DUNGENESS — State Department of Fish and Wildlife agents are investigating the fatal shooting of a trumpeter swan, whose carcass was found Monday in a pond off Woodcock Road near Buttercup Lane.

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is calling the increased population of the state's trumpeter swans a " true modern-day conservation success story." Iowa trumpeter swans attempted ...

GRANVILLE — A large private pond in the ultra-rural outskirts of Granville is not a likely spot for a trumpeter swan to land. But this large, white bird has bucked the odds before: During the past 90 ...

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 ...

Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an increase of 17% over 2022. The active nests average around 4.4 cygnets, or ...