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 ...
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 ...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Another baby watch is going on at the Maryland Zoo. The Zoo has been welcoming some new animal family members recently, and now its family will soon be getting even bigger. We got a ...
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 ...
Each day, we view the swamp from an overlook that Joe built which we call “The Hide." This name came from his tours in England, where they typically use the word "hide" for a small bird watching ...
BALTIMORE, Md. (WHTM) – Some good news on the conservation front. The Maryland Zoo has announced the hatching of two trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator). The cygnets, as swan hatchlings are called, ...
North America is home to two native swans, tundra swans and trumpeter swans. Both nest in the high Arctic. Both migrate south for the winter. But according to published range maps, neither winters ...
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 ...
The Maryland Zoo is welcoming two trumpeter swan hatchlings.The newborns, called cygnets, hatched after more than 30 days of incubating in their huge nest at the zoo's farmyard."This is the sixth ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium announced the loss of one of its birds. Mabel, a trumpeter swan who had been at the zoo for five years, passed away at 13 years old due to ...
Anyone who’s perused valentines or romantic greeting cards has probably seen illustrations of swan pairs almost beak to beak, necks elegantly curved to form the shape of a heart. They’re known to mate ...