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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utah waterfowl hunters continue to shoot down excessive numbers or rare trumpeter swans, prompting wildlife officials to once again close Utah’s swan hunt early. Despite several measures aimed at ...

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 ...

Hunters in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin will begin shooting swans this weekend. Yes, swans -- trumpeter and tundra swans -- those large white waterfowl that are as much a symbol of grace and ...

The near-record-setting month of March brought an unexpected quick end to winter. A snowpack of nearly 2 feet rapidly shrunk right before our eyes as mild temperatures -- which mostly stayed above ...

A struggling population of rare trumpeter swans may be the unintended victims of an ongoing tundra swan hunt in Utah. That’s the word from some anonymous Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, who say ...

Each day, we view the swamp from an overlook that Joe built which we call “The Hide." This name came from his tours in England, where they typically use the word "hide" for a small bird watching ...

A federal plan to let hunters shoot trumpeter swans has drawn fire from some of the people who toiled to bring the majestic white birds back from the brink of extinction. Trumpeter swans, North ...

Six “protected” tundra swans were found shot dead and left to waste in an Idaho field, wildlife officials said. The birds were believed to have been killed between March 25 and March 26 near Saint ...

BROWNSVILLE — Thousands of miles north of Southeast Minnesota, Canadian tundra is already frozen, forcing thousands of tundra swans to leave their breeding grounds. By the scores, by hundreds, they ...