IDAHO: Zoo Idaho has partnered with the Trumpeter Swan Society, Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, and multiple zoos from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums from across the US on the Oregon Restoration Project. The goal is to help improve trumpeter swan populations in Oregon. Zoo Idaho housed 19 Trumpeter Swans in the wetland area over the past winter before relocating them to the Summer Lake Wildlife Area, Oregon.

On the morning of June 28, the 19 swans at Zoo Idaho with an additional six swans from the Wyoming Wetland Society were transported to Summer Lake Wildlife Area where they were processed, collared, and released Saturday, June 29. Read more and see more photos...

OREGON: unriver Nature Center has confirmed that five baby trumpeter swans — also known as cygnets — hatched at Lake Aspen last weekend.

The cygnets were hatched June 8 by resident trumpeter swans Gus and Valentina. Since 2015, when the Sunriver Nature Center introduced the resident mating pair Chuck and Gracie, 11 cygnets from the nature center have been released at Summer Lake Wildlife Area through Oregon’s Trumpeter Swan Restoration Program. ..

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YUKON: "There are no shortage of camera lenses trained on the trumpeter and tundra swans that pass through the Whitehorse and southern lakes region of the Yukon each spring on their migration north. Whitehorse-based nature photographer Peter Mather thought there were still shots going uncaptured despite all the interest in the migrating birds, so he spent a month this spring photographing the swans as much as he could.

In pursuit of unique swan photos, usually taken from eye-level with the birds as they fed or rested on water bodies in the southern Yukon, Mather used a variety of techniques. He used remote cameras, underwater housings and white blankets as camouflage. He described camping out near common migration stops before inching his way out to the waters’ edge hours before dawn and waiting for the swans to come in close. " Click to see the photos

Webinar: Explore how this park became a vital refuge for trumpeter swans during a period of perilous decline in the early 20th century, with just 70 known individuals remaining in the continental United States by 1933, a substantial portion of which found sanctuary within Yellowstone's borders. Journey through the ebbs and flows of swan populations within the park, from their flourishing numbers before the 1960s to the challenges faced in recent decades.

Learn about Yellowstone's proactive conservation strategies and ongoing research endeavors aimed at ensuring the enduring presence of the iconic trumpeter swan within its boundaries.

ALASKA: . A recent Audubon analysis found that 1% of trumpeter swans pass through the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. "Nature lovers said the findings speak to the wealth of the Chilkat Valley’s ecosystem.

“The numbers are super validating and really exciting,” said Stacie Evans, a biologist for Takshanuk Watershed Council who was not involved with the research. “We call (the Chilkat Valley) the land of superlatives. Every year I study here, it seems like we rack up another one.”

IDAHO: "POCATELLO — Zoo Idaho has started a restoration project that will help increase the number of trumpeter swans living in the wild.

Zoo Idaho Superintendent Peter Pruett said the project initially started in 2018. They hoped to be able to start two years ago, but they had to push it back due to rising cases of avian influenza. Pruett said a group of trumpeter swans will come to the zoo in October where they will stay during the winter. They will then be relocated to Oregon the following June." Read more...