If you’ve been near Madison’s lakes in the last week or so, chances are, you’ve heard an loud screeching noise coming from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Winter waterfowl are an expected presence on Oklahoma's lakes and ponds, but most people are genuinely surprised the first time they encounter a wild swan. Besides the occasional, orange-billed, ...