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 ...

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 ...

Efforts to restore vanished populations of wild trumpeter swans to Iowa wetlands is on track and wildlife enthusiasts could see as many as six new pairs establish breeding territories this spring.

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 ...

RONAN - A sheet of plywood decking with two plastic "welcome" mats attached and a few willow branches, reeds and rushes piled on top was towed out on a pond Tuesday morning by Confederated Salish and ...

POLSON — When Dale Becker released the first trumpeter swans on the Flathead Reservation in more than 20 years, he became part of a conservation success story. That first year, though, didn’t go so ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Wildlife Council voted to remove the trumpeter swan from the state's threatened species list after a 28-year effort by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to restore a ...

SUNRIVER — Gus and Valentina, the two trumpeter swans living at the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, laid five eggs this spring, and are attempting to get their cygnets from last year to embark ...

Feb. 23—Even if you weren't looking for them, there is no way you could miss all the swans on The Flathead River, especially between Dixon and Paradise. Those white bodies stand out on the water as ...