The federal government is considering a proposal to establish a new hunting season for tundra swans in Alberta, Manitoba and ...

A struggling population of rare trumpeter swans may be the unintended victims of an ongoing tundra swan hunt in Utah. That’s the word from some anonymous Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, who say ...

North America is home to two native swans, tundra swans and trumpeter swans. Both nest in the high Arctic. Both migrate south for the winter. But according to published range maps, neither winters ...

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 federal plan to let hunters shoot trumpeter swans has drawn fire from some of the people who toiled to bring the majestic white birds back from the brink of extinction. Trumpeter swans, North ...

Nearly three decades ago on a chill, still December afternoon, I watched three majestic trumpeter swans touch down in a Chesapeake salt marsh. It was a sight that had not been seen on the Bay for ...

Spotting elegant tundra swans can brighten cold wintry days. Between mid-November and mid-December, we cherish hearing their soft mellow vocalization “hoo-hoo” calls before we see the swans overhead ...

• Largest wild fowl in North America. • White feathers, black bill with a pink streak at the base of the upper mandible. • During migration, can be confused with the tundra swan, which is smaller, ...

RAVALLI — In the slipstream of thousands of snow geese, Montana’s biggest waterfowl has resumed residence in area wetlands. “We’re not just getting established pairs, but some of the young ones from ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal plan to let hunters shoot trumpeter swans has drawn fire from some of the people who toiled to bring the majestic white birds back from the brink of extinction. Trumpeter swans ...