In general, the first few weeks of November are an excellent time to travel Highway 61 along the Mississippi River to see thousands of migrating tundra swans ... And a female summer tanager ...

the mute swan and the tundra swan (sometimes known as the whistling swan). Trumpeter swans almost went extinct during the early 1900s—fewer than 100 were in the Lower 48 at one point.

Above: Tundra swans are not rare but they are uncommon visitors to our region. Nine of those birds were captured in this ...

Birdwatchers watched in horror last January as the hunter shot and killed a Tundra Swan as it swam with its mate. Several bird watchers had gathered on the shore to see and photograph the swans ...