Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an increase ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, hunting and farming decimated the trumpeter swan population and by the 1880s swans disappeared from Minnesota. As of 2023, there are now 51,000 in the state. The ...

Anyone who’s perused valentines or romantic greeting cards has probably seen illustrations of swan pairs almost beak to beak, necks elegantly curved to form the shape of a heart. They’re known to mate ...

WILBURN -- A small crowd has gathered on a cold, overcast Monday morning in the gravel parking lot of a little lake on Hiram Road in Cleburne County. They have come to see trumpeter swans, and the ...

Once a native species in Minnesota, the trumpeter swans had just about disappeared in the state by 1932. In the 1960’s Minnesota began a restoration effort for the swans. The DNR’s Non-Game Wildlife ...

MINNEAPOLIS — They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to ...

IOWA (KCAU) — Last year will go in the record books for trumpeter swans in the Hawkeye State. In 2025, Iowa’s trumpeter swans attempted a record 158 nests. Native to Iowa, and the state’s largest ...

They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from ...

Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from Alaska, beginning in 1987. Carrol Henderson was the Department of Natural ...