This Cuban Cigar plant was unknown to me until this afternoon.

The shape and colour of the bill help in identifying the Trumpeter and Tundra swans in the field.

Trumpeter swans are now protected by law in Canada and the United States.

Wye Marsh is the well-known site of a reintroduction program for wild trumpeter swans.

Peregrine falcons, trumpeter swans and golden eagles are among the 120 species of birds recorded.

They form a superspecies with the Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) of North America which has an all black bill.

Within the Okanagan Valley, this site protects a stopover of the trumpeter swan during its autumn migration.

Wye Marsh is the well-known site of a reintroduction program for wild trumpeter swans.

It takes the food underwater or on water surface, and on the ground in winter.

Two of these, the Tundra Swan and the Trumpeter Swan C. buccinator, are native to North America; their respective populations comprise 140 000 and 16 000 individuals.

The Trumpeter Swan US population is mostly sedentary or only perform short local movements.

The rare species of birds is well celebrated in Midland and a symbol of the trumpeter swan has been erected by the harbor.

The settling of Alaska may prove to be as detrimental to Trumpeter Swans as was the settlement of the plains.

The Courtenay River Estuary is considered to be the single most important wintering site in the world for the protected Trumpeter Swan.

Lesser scaup, trumpeter swans and woodland caribou depend on the wetlands of Alberta’s boreal forest.