Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska. Not too long ago, Alaska scientists discovered more about where the ...

Spotting elegant tundra swans can brighten cold wintry days. Between mid-November and mid-December, we cherish hearing their soft mellow vocalization “hoo-hoo” calls before we see the swans overhead ...

Nearly three decades ago on a chill, still December afternoon, I watched three majestic trumpeter swans touch down in a Chesapeake salt marsh. It was a sight that had not been seen on the Bay for ...

Meg Walkup said she got goose bumps when she heard "TR," a tundra swan cygnet, or juvenile bird, that started its spring migration in North Carolina, had been spotted and photographed last week in ...

Tundra swans, once known as whistling swans, are a bit smaller than the more rare trumpeter swan. They move through the Mississippi River Valley in early March through late May en route to northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. (WXOW) -- A sure sign that winter is on its way is the arrival of the tundra swans along the Mississippi River. Tundra swans have flown thousands of miles from the Arctic in ...

When it made what may have been its inaugural flight in September 2003, the tundra swan cygnet had neither a name nor fame. Now "TR" not only has a name, but a collar fitted with a satellite ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A tundra swan in the care of Bend's Think Wild wildlife rehabilitation hospital for the past two weeks was successfully released back into the wild Wednesday after surviving a ...