Dennis Anderson: Growing trumpeter swan numbers might be too much of a good thing

They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no ...
Purdue University

Are you seeing nests of our state endangered swan? – Wild Bulletin

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: March is the beginning of peak nesting season for Indiana’s state-endangered trumpeter swan. During the nesting season, ...
Newsweek

Swan Lets Man Save Her Eggs From Rising Water by Building a Makeshift Raft

A swan let a man save her eggs by building a makeshift raft in the dark on Saturday night, after they were threatened by rising water in a marina. The water level had "shot up" at the Jones Boatyard ...
NBC Montana

Historic first nests of trumpeter swans documented in Bitterroot Valley

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 ...
WUNC

When birds build nests, they're also building a culture

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren't solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...
Radio Iowa

Record number of trumpeter swan nests located in Iowa

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 ...
WHDH

Make way for cygnets! Eggs begin hatching at swan’s nest on Esplanade

BOSTON (WHDH) - Cygnet eggs have started to hatch at the swan’s nest on the Esplanade in Boston, officials announced Monday. “Make way for cygnets!” the Charles River Esplanade said in a tweet. “We ...