Swan Links- United States

This online Ebird map shows locations across North America where Trumpeter Swans have been seen. Zoom in or out to see dates and locations of sightings near you! Thanks to Wisconsin Ebird for this link. You can zoom into any location in North America.

This list of National Wildlife Refuges includes Refuges with Trumpeter Swans being reported at some point during their annual cycle.

Heber Springs is home to many wintering Trumpeter Swans. Directions to Heber Springs's Magness Lake are included in the link.

Nesting swans are on Silver lake. Harriman State Park is also an important wintering site for Trumpeter Swans.

Information about the status of Trumpeter Swans is found in Appendix F, pages 34-35

Read about the 3 year project that released eight-month old Iowa swans into Arkansas in winter to see if they will establish a migration route between Iowa and Arkansas. 2008-2010.

This bird sanctuary is home to different swan species and has many wintering swans

A brief review of Michigan's swan restoration program and best areas on the Au Sable River to view Trumpeter Swans.

This article appeared in the Bemidji Pioneer in June 2018.

Here is the story about the very beginnings of Minnesota's Trumpeter Swan restoration. It all began in the mid 1960s in Hennepin County Parks, now known as Three Rivers Park District

Many of the parks and preserves in Three Rivers Park District have Trumpeter Swans at some point during the year. Call to find out where they are during your visit to the Twin Cities.

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.

This appeared as a report at the second North American Wildlife Conference in 1936. The collective efforts of all involved have brought Trumpeter Swans a long, long way since then. Read about the early efforts at Red Rock Lakes.

Includes maps of swan sightings

Red Rock Lakes was established in the 1930s specifically to protect Trumpeter Swans. This beautiful refuge has been at the heart of the return of the Trumpeter Swan to North America. Cygnets from Red Rock Lakes NWR were used in early swan restorations in the Midwest, as well as being shared with zoos to preserve the species.

Southwest Montana's Centennial Valley is crucially important to the survival of Trumpeter Swans that nest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. During summer 2011, The Trumpeter Swan Society funded monitoring and research at over 30 historic nesting territories on private ranches and public lands west of Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

Summer Lake Wildlife Area is the site of the Trumpeter Swan releases for the Oregon Restoration Project, a partnership between TTSS, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Summer Lake is also a wintering site for swans as well as a rest stop for migrating Tundra and Trumpeter Swans.

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

Hines Marsh is used by wintering and migrating Trumpeter Swans

by Carlene Hardt

This article highlights efforts in Wisconsin to restore trumpeter swans through egg collection in Alaska and partnerships, the 3 year midwest swan tracking study now going on, and the record 2021 hatch of 10 cygnets in the town of Minong. Read more...

A celebration of unique private/state partnerships featuring an exploration of the history, challenges, and development of Wisconsin's Trumpeter Swan Recovery Program spanning the end of one century and beginning of another. Presenter: Sumner Matteson, Avian Ecologist, Wisconsin DNR

"Educating One Pond Owner at a Time"

Powerpoint presentation created by David Lockman of one of the first range expansion project for the Rocky Mountain Population of Trumpeter Swans conducted in Wyoming in the 1980's. This is a presentation he gave on April 21, 2022 to the Star Valley Historical Society in NW Wyoming