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, ...
Before I heard wildlife biologist Dale Becker’s talk, all I knew about trumpeter swans came from an East Coast writer who had never seen one. At the April 9 meeting of Flathead Wildlife, Becker told a ...
Each day, we view the swamp from an overlook that Joe built which we call “The Hide." This name came from his tours in England, where they typically use the word "hide" for a small bird watching ...
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 ...
AMES, Iowa - A blue heron stands stalk still, its neck coiled, eyes unflinching, peering into the clear water beneath it. Suddenly, it thrusts its sharp beak into the shallow water, thrashes its head ...
If you haven’t already heard the buzz on birding social media, here’s the alert: New York City has logged its first-ever recorded trumpeter swan sighting, and it happened right along the East River ...
MOUND CITY, Mo. — Missouri conservationists’ decades of work to save a species of swan has led to a new record. A weekly survey recorded nearly 4,200 trumpeter swans at the Loess Bluffs National ...