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Photograph by Matt Hegwood. Aerial view of wintering Michigan Trumpeter Swans

Swan Links- United States

Below: States are in alphabetical order

Arkansas

Idaho

Iowa

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

  • The Audubon Center at Riverlands, at the confluence area of the Missouri and Mississippi River near St. Louis, has the largest wintering population of Trumpeter Swans outside of Minnesota. The Center's Great River Trumpeter Watch, started in partnership with TTSS in 2011, tracks wintering swans including marked swans.

  • Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge has several hundred wintering swans each winter, sometimes numbering over 1,000.

Montana

Nebraska

Ohio

Oregon

South Dakota

  • Lacreek NWR began the first restoration of Trumpeter Swans in the Midwest, beginning in the 1960s. Their original swans came from Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The descendants of the Lacreek flock are now the High Plains Flock and extend as far south as Nebraska

Washington

Wisconsin

Wyoming

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