For three years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took eggs from nests in Canada, where the trumpeter swan population was thriving. They had a strategy; usually, trumpeter swans lay four to seven ...

OVANDO - His arms wrapped tightly around a 2-year-old trumpeter swan, Tom Hinz carefully picks his way around scattered badger holes down to the pond. A collection of volunteers and wildlife agency ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and other ...

Trumpeter swans gather in the shallow waters of the Gull River in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Area Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in East Gull Lake.

Cygnets’ flight feathers — 10 of them on each wing — take 90 to 100 days to grow after they hatch. So in recent years, the trumpeters were kept until they were about a year old and their flight ...