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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meg Walkup said she got goose bumps when she heard "TR," a tundra swan cygnet, or juvenile bird, that started its spring migration in North Carolina, had been spotted and photographed last week in ...

Tundra swans, once known as whistling swans, are a bit smaller than the more rare trumpeter swan. They move through the Mississippi River Valley in early March through late May en route to northern ...

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 ...

North America is home to two native swans, tundra swans and trumpeter swans. Both nest in the high Arctic. Both migrate south for the winter. But according to published range maps, neither winters ...

Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021 -- Each year tundra swans do a round trip from the Arctic shores of Alaska and Canada all the way back to North Carolina. They perform this miracle of navigation and survival ...

Editor’s note: Parts of this article are featured in the latest season of our Chesapeake Uncharted podcast, available at bayjournal.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. The season is a companion to ...

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 ...