BALTIMORE, Md. (WHTM) – Some good news on the conservation front. The Maryland Zoo has announced the hatching of two trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator). The cygnets, as swan hatchlings are called, ...
They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from ...
JACKSON - Members of the Wyoming Wetland Society are incubating trumpeter swan eggs they collected from British Columbia this spring with plans eventually to release the young birds to improve the ...
Last week, I recalled my interest in trumpeter swans that has never wavered. I covered the swan's characteristics, status and ...
SUNRIVER — Gus and Valentina, the two trumpeter swans living at the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, laid five eggs this spring, and are attempting to get their cygnets from last year to embark ...
CHICAGO | Six trumpeter swan cygnets are the first of the endangered birds to hatch at the Lincoln Park Zoo since 2009. The chicks eventually will be released into the wild as part of a decade-old ...
A pair of endangered trumpeter swans in Steuben County have successfully hatched an offspring in Indiana for the first time since modern birdwatching records have been kept, the state Division of Fish ...
• Largest wild fowl in North America. • White feathers, black bill with a pink streak at the base of the upper mandible. • During migration, can be confused with the tundra swan, which is smaller, ...