Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

Iowa trumpeter swans attempted a modern-day record 158 nests in 2025, which the DNR said was a 17% increase since 2022. The department used data from the most recent survey completion, which took ...

Christmas Eve morning as I was trying to beat the last-minute rush to Walmart in Rexburg when I heard the unmistakable call ...

Iowa’s trumpeter swan population had nearly 160 nests in 2025, a modern-day record the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

BIRDS. EACH YEAR, THE RICE FIELDS OF YUBA COUNTY HOST TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TUNDRA SWANS. TUNDRA SWANS ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST NATIVE BIRDS IN NORTH AMERICA, WEIGHING MORE THAN 20 POUNDS, WITH A FIVE ...

Thu., Dec. 11, 2025 A trumpeter swan takes off from Middle Pine Lake at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in this Nov. 21 photo by Jerry Rolwes. (Courtesy of Jerry Rolwes) A trumpeter swan takes ...

Large numbers of tundra swans are seen wintering at the Donggu Lake wetland in Yueyang, Hunan province, drawing crowds of visitors and photographers. [Photo by Zhou Yang/for chinadaily.com.cn] As ...

Large numbers of tundra swans are seen wintering at the Donggu Lake wetland in Yueyang, Hunan province, drawing crowds of visitors and photographers. [Photo by Zhou Yang/for chinadaily.com.cn] Since ...

The East River’s “Swan Lake” story has ended in tragedy. A rock-wielding, real-life “Rothbart” is believed to have ruthlessly murdered one half of the beloved swan couple that calls the river home — ...