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 ...

With conservation easements, farmers are paid - about $250,000 for a 100-acre farm - to keep their land in agriculture or open space forever. Easements would protect open space, provide the farmer ...

Swans worldwide are a small family of seven species. Minnesota sees three of those each year (probably). We see resident trumpeter swans, migrating tundra swans and invasive mute swans. (The migrating ...

Large numbers of tundra swans are seen wintering at the Donggu Lake wetland in Yueyang, Hunan province, drawing crowds of visitors and photographers. [Photo by Zhou Yang/for chinadaily.com.cn] As ...