Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an ...

The large white birds are native to Iowa but the population was decimated by the late 1800s. However, the birds had a ...

The Saint Louis Zoo’s trumpeter swan cygnets, born in May, will be part of the Oregon Restoration Project. Grace Erker, Saint Louis Zoo For the first time since 1996, the Saint Louis Zoo has welcomed ...

In 2025, Iowa’s trumpeter swans attempted a record 158 nests. Native to Iowa, and the state’s largest waterfowl to boot, ...

Iowa trumpeter swans attempted a modern-day record 158 nests in 2025, which the DNR said was a 17% increase since 2022. The department used data from the most recent survey completion, which took ...

THE THREE CYGNET Trumpeter swans, seen on the left, still in their juvenile gray feathers are doing fine 11 weeks after they've hatched at the Mitchell County Nature Center. The two adults are seen at ...

CHICAGO | Six trumpeter swan cygnets are the first of the endangered birds to hatch at the Lincoln Park Zoo since 2009. The chicks eventually will be released into the wild as part of a decade-old ...

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, ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge reports that the trumpeter swan pair staying on the refuge has hatched six cygnets. Manager Tom Reed has been monitoring the pair staying on a large, ...

Gary Dalton, who lives near Placid Lake, releases a trumpeter swan cygnet into Jones Lake on the Rolling Stone Ranch near Ovando Thursday morning. Around 150 people from around the area came to watch ...

Whether he knows he's their daddy apparently doesn't matter, because a male trumpeter swan on a wetland pond north of Lincoln has taken to parenting his three motherless babies like he's done it ...