Wild trumpeter swans made a rare visit to the area last year. Photo Credit: Ken Kieser Trumpeter swans paid a visit to the midwestern Missouri lake where I live last January when unseasonably warm ...

14. A group of three adult trumpeter swans and one juvenile was seen at three different lakes for the week before the CBC. Shallow bodies of water are where swans feed, and since they were open ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, hunting and farming decimated the trumpeter swan population and by the 1880s swans disappeared from Minnesota. As of 2023, there are now 51,000 in the state.

Three Swan Species Live in North America Only three species of swans nest in North America: the trumpeter swan, the mute swan and the tundra swan (sometimes known as the whistling swan).

And their call! While one might confuse trumpeters for tundra swans on sight, the sonorous, deeply resonant tone of Columbus buccinator (the trumpeter) contrasts sharply with the shriller, wild baying ...

Waterfowl recently found dead in several Northeast Ohio counties are presumed to have been infected with bird flu and samples ...

Kenneth Kieser Going Outdoors Note: I will be at the Kansas City Boat and Fishing Show at Bartle Hall in Kansas City promoting my next… ...

The DEC said this measure will ease the village into transitioning to ownership of native trumpeter or tundra swans, which are native to the area. These swans are permitted to reproduce.

A Northern Iowa natural sanctuary increasingly looks like a graveyard as bird flu spreads through its waterfowl. Sweet Marsh, a wetland northeast of Tripoli, welcomes Canada geese, trumpeter swans ...

This year, 26 floats showed off light displays during the Holdrege Parade of Lights, including farm equipment, emergency vehicles, trucks and golf carts.

Friends of Wye Marsh are saddened to report that trumpeter swan J23, better known as Charles, passed away earlier this month. According to a social media post, Charles was spotted by someone walking ...