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 ...

Each year thousands of people visit Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster and Lebanon counties to watch the snow geese and tundra swan that stop there during migration. This year likely ...

They are few in number but the migrating snow geese and tundra swans have arrived at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area on their trip north. “This winter has been a weird one and has left us ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- With temperatures looking a lot like spring, and maybe even summer, some signs of the season are making appearances in nature. That includes an American robin spotted Tuesday ...

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. (WXOW) -- A sure sign that winter is on its way is the arrival of the tundra swans along the Mississippi River. Tundra swans have flown thousands of miles from the Arctic in ...

Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska. Not too long ago, Alaska scientists discovered more about where the ...

MARYSVILLE — The California Swan Festival takes flight Friday through Sunday with tours, presentations and activities for the whole family. Just before winter sets in, more than 100,000 tundra swan ...

Each fall, the otherwise quiet backwaters of the Mississippi River echo with the high-pitched calls of thousands of migrating tundra swans. The birds coalesce in large numbers near Brownsville, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upper Mississippi ranger Steve Bodonovinitz holds a jar of arrowhead tubers Saturday at the Brownsville Overlook. The tubers are an important food source for tundra swans, which are attracted yearly ...