Breaking News on North American Trumpeter Swans
Trumpeter Swan Program Goal Has Been Met!
Thank-you for supporting the Trumpeter Swan Program at Wye Marsh! A recent report authored by Mr. Harry Lumsden, the coordinator of the Ontario Trumpeter Swan Program, has confirmed for the first time in the program's history, the objectives have been attained in reaching a self sustaining population of Trumpeter Swans. READ MORE>>
BLM dedicates money for state wildlife projects
Billings Gazette - Billings , MT , USA
The BLM will spend $150000 on a enhancement project for trumpeter swan
habitat. Partners that include Wyoming Game and Fish , US Fish and Wildlife
Service ... READ MORE>>
US biologist plans foster program for trumpeter swans
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
OTTAWA - An ambitious plan to use Canada geese as foster parentscould
restore the trumpeter swan to the Canadian north. For thousands of years,
READ MORE>>
Swan romance spawns potential menace
Globe and Mail - Toronto , Ontario , Canada
This trumpeter swan and introduced mute swan, tucked into the east coast of
Vancouver Island, were birds of a different feather that didn't belong
together. ... READ MORE>>
The Trumpeter swan that was injured before Christmas is recovering from surgery nicely at its new Wye Marsh home READ MORE>>
Trumpeter swans return gracefully
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
Since 1987, the trumpeter swan population in Minnesota has grown from
virtually nonexistent to an estimated 2,000 birds, said Katie Haws, a
regional nongame ...
< http://www.in-forum.com/News/articles/150060 >
Wye Marsh Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction Program Update 2006 Year End Report.
Details are provided on Trumpeter Swan habitat, territories, public sightings, population estimates,tagging efforts, swan mortality, recommendations, donations and acknowledgements. The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre has been a main cooperator in the program since 1989. One of the largest populations in the Province of Ontario continues to return to the Wye Marsh and the Southern Georgian Bay area each winter. The study area goes as far north as Sudbury and North Bay...........report author Julie Kee, Trumpeter Swan Program and Research Coordinator.
Inside the Outdoors: Migration swan song signals winter weather
The Lake Country Echo - Pine River,MN,USA
Trumpeter and Whistling Swans meet. A foolproof identifier, though only found post-mortem, is the structure
believed responsible for the trumpeter swan's "voice." The windpipe of the
trumpeter ...
< http://www.pineandlakes.com/stories/113006/opinion_20061130013.shtml >
Innisfil man charged under Federal Migratory Birds Conservation ...
Innisfil Scope - Innisfil, Ontario, Canada
... operated in a wreckless manner, and was observed on three occasions
driving directly at a Trumpeter swam that was swimming in the Lake. The
swan managed to ...
< http://www.innisfilscope.com/news/2006/1122/Front_Page/001.html >
Audubon's Trumpeter Swan
In Quebec , Le Musee de la Civilisation's reworkings of John James Audubon's "The Birds of America " are more like multimedia slide shows than traditional animation. But the results are, like their subjects, beautiful. If you watch only one, make it the delightful "La Fluidite" ("Wavy"), which shows a moth flitting around a stately trumpeter swan. http://www.mcq.org/audubon/menu.html .
Click on the Trumpeter Swan and watch the clip to the end for a surprise. You can also click on the other birds in the Harmony collage for similar effects.
Swan cygnets move to SL pond site
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune - Storm Lake, IA, USA
The Cherokee Conservation group managed to collect their entire family of swans at the Larsen Lake site and deliver them to the main Swan Pond on Highway 71 north of Storm
Lake, where birds are kept for the winter season. A breeding pair of trumpeter
swans from...
Trumpeter swans released at dunes
Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - Aug 26, 2006
EMPIRE — Officials at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore released eight young trumpeter swans in the park this summer with hopes they will return next ...
Of sweat, swans and swell names
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... running high. Others are thrilled at re-establishing native trumpeter
swans, and if it means the mute swan invaders must go, so be it. ...
NEW
Zoo has new trumpeter swans WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USA
The recently celebrated the hatching of three new trumpeter swans. It's
all part of Iowa's Trumpeter Swan Re-introduction program. ...
Trumpeter
swan Patriot-News, PA - Apr 15, 2006
698, graced the Susquehanna River, mainly at the West Fairview Marina.
The male was hatched in 2002 and released on Georgian Bay, Ontario, on
June 17, 2004. ...
Message
to anglers: 'Get the lead out' BusinessNorth.com - Duluth,MN,USA
... loon. Other birds affected by lead include the State Endangered Trumpeter
Swan and our national symbol, the Bald Eagle. Luckily, there ...
Love
on Swan Lake DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... Against the odds, she kept all three safe until they were old enough
to go into the Iowa Department of Natural Resources trumpeter swan program.
...
Indiana
gets back to nature Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... Important" bird area with more than 280 species, such as the
blue-winged teal and tundra swan. Bald eagles have rebounded, as have
trumpeter swans, re ...
WILDLIFE
Viewing Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... A full-plumage adult-male tufted duck has been on Meares Lake west
of Tillamook. A trumpeter swan was near Coquille. A Rufous hummingbird
was at Florence. ...
SAVING
Big Bird WQAD - Moline,IL,USA MAQUOKETA, Iowa
-- It could've been the swan song for a native of the Quad ... Their willow
weaving is closely watched by two giant trumpeter swans, birds that ...
Wye Marsh and The Trumpeter Swan
The Wye Marsh Trumpeter Swan program is focused on the re-introduction
in Ontario, and recognizes the importance of success in other areas
of North America.
We provide additional Trumpeter Swan information on the Ontario Trumpeters
on the following web pages fast Trumpeter Swan
facts, Swan stories , adopt
a swan,
report a swan sighting, more Trumpeter Swan
links.
