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 ...

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, ...

.The United States and Canada have three kinds of swans, each with a defining attribute. Trumpeter swans are the largest; tundra swans fly the farthest; mute swans are the most aggressive. Of course, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. - On a blustery mid-November day, one that yielded the first significant snowfall of the season, you might expect things to be still and quiet on the Mississippi River near ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Coeur d’Alene Basin Restoration Partnership (RP) is working closely with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop tools to monitor long-term waterfowl health as ...

The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources has approved a plan to eliminate all legal trumpeter swan harvest for the upcoming waterfowl season. The rule change, which DWR approved at a public meeting ...