If you're heading south down Highway 26 this weekend you may be surprised as you roll through Brownsville and southward.

After killing a couple hours nestled into the tall, dry grass bordering a public wetland, the sky turned a cool purple and hundreds of white swans flocked over us. I hunkered down into the boat blind ...

(And yes, we do still have a robust migration of tundra swans, smaller cousins of the trumpeters, which visit the Bay annually in November from Alaska.) That return of the trumpeters was somewhat ...

Tundra swans, known as "winter messengers," have flown to the area around the Sai River in the city of Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, where they have come to spend the winter. Tundra swans first came ...