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 ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Coeur d’Alene Basin Restoration Partnership (RP) is working closely with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop tools to monitor long-term waterfowl health as ...

Swans worldwide are a small family of seven species. Minnesota sees three of those each year (probably). We see resident trumpeter swans, migrating tundra swans and invasive mute swans. (The migrating ...

Our three swans are among the most attractive of all waterfowl. On Palm Sunday over a hundred tundra swans swam about the Cayuga Pool of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Occasionally a small ...

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 ...

Last week in The Great Outdoors I recalled my interest in trumpeter swans that has never wavered. I covered the swan's ...