The large white birds are native to Iowa but the population was decimated by the late 1800s. However, the birds had a ...

Efforts to restore vanished populations of wild trumpeter swans to Iowa wetlands is on track and wildlife enthusiasts could see as many as six new pairs establish breeding territories this spring.

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 ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has identified a record number of trumpeter nests. The species was reintroduced in Iowa in 1993. “Their population has been slowly recovering since then,” DNR ...

Trumpeter swan Valentina sits on her nest as her mate Gus stands in the shade of a tree at the Sunriver Nature Center on Wednesday. SUNRIVER — It wasn’t love at first sight for Gus and Valentina, the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The who's who of the Guilded Age not dare show their faces without must have, high fasion hats adorned with migratory birds. Once the U.S. realized it needed refuges to save species ...

The Ohio Wildlife Council has voted to remove the trumpeter swan from the state’s threatened species list following a 28-year effort by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to restore the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Wildlife Council voted to remove the trumpeter swan from the state's threatened species list after a 28-year effort by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to restore a ...

Feb. 23—Even if you weren't looking for them, there is no way you could miss all the swans on The Flathead River, especially between Dixon and Paradise. Those white bodies stand out on the water as ...

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 ...