IOWA (KCAU) — Last year will go in the record books for trumpeter swans in the Hawkeye State. In 2025, Iowa’s trumpeter swans attempted a record 158 nests. Native to Iowa, and the state’s largest ...

Manitobans could soon be permitted to hunt tundra swans and mourning doves, as biologists say the populations of both species ...

About 6 miles east of Heber Springs, the magnificent trumpeter swans are wintering again in Arkansas. Having come back from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 25, 2024 (ENS) – Ohio is celebrating the recovery of the state’s trumpeter swans as a conservation success story. The Ohio Wildlife Council, an eight-member, bipartisan group of ...

DUNGENESS — State Department of Fish and Wildlife agents are investigating the fatal shooting of a trumpeter swan, whose carcass was found Monday in a pond off Woodcock Road near Buttercup Lane.

A pair of Trumpeter swans glide in for a landing Thursday, March 28, 2024, near Greens's Point on the Mississippi River near Brainerd. BRAINERD — If you live on the Mississippi River above the ...

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 ...

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Since January, Iowa Bird Rehabilitation (IBR) says dozens of trumpeter swans have died from lead poisoning. IBR, a nonprofit organization that steps in to rescue, rehabilitate and ...

Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an increase of 17% over 2022. The active nests average around 4.4 cygnets, or ...

• Largest wild fowl in North America. • White feathers, black bill with a pink streak at the base of the upper mandible. • During migration, can be confused with the tundra swan, which is smaller, ...

When Carrol Henderson interviewed in 1977 for a new job in state government — to head the Nongame Wildlife Program with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) — he asked about the ...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Wildlife Council has voted to remove the trumpeter swan from the state’s threatened species list following a 28-year effort by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to ...