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I watched this Trumpeter Swan family as they fed on the plants in the pond.

The Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) is the largest species of waterfowl with a wingspan that can exceed 10 feet. It is also the heaviest living bird native to North America. In the early part of the 20th century, with a population of less than 70, the trumpeter swan faced extinction. Aerial surveys eventually discovered a population of several thousand trumpeters around Alaska's Copper River. Some of these were carefully reintroduced to other areas and now the population exceeds 46,000 birds. The adult trumpeter swan has an all-white plumage, while the cygnets are light gray with pink legs. After about a year in age the cygnets gain their adult plumage. The breeding habitat of trumpeter swans is large shallow ponds, undisturbed lakes, pristine wetlands and wide slow rivers, and marshes. The largest numbers of breeding pairs can be found in Alaska but they also breed in northwestern and central North America. In the winter, natural populations of swans migrate in V-shaped flocks to southern Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. This trumpeter swan was photographed while wintering on the Skagit Flats near La Conner, Washington State, USA.

Trumpeter Swan at Esquimalt Lagoon, Victoria, BC Canada

Swans on a agricultural field farm land

A swan and her cygnets in a stream in Sussex, with the cygnets riding on her back

Adult trumpeter swan (Cygnus Buccinator) in Lake Ontario, Canada

A white swan is by the lake

Newly hatched baby Trumpeter swans are ready to go for their first swim, and await the male who is checking if everything is OK. Minnesota. Once the OK was given, they all scurried off the nest into the water for the first time. It was an outstanding case of child discipline.

A swan grazes on the green lawn by the lake,Gorenjska,,Slovenija

The trumpeter swan is a species of swan found in North America. The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 250 cm.

White swan floats in water

A pair of Trumpeter Swans glide through the water. These large birds have been making a comeback in Iowa in recent years.

Birds. Bulgaria

A close up of a Trumpeter Swan at Martin Mere Nature Reserve

Daytime side view close-up in springtime of a mute swan (Cygnus Olor) lying in a ditch with its head tucked under a wing, trying to sleep but at the same time being alert - water is blue from reflection of the clear blue sky

On a nest in Minnesota

Walking swan.

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Trumpeter Swan Flapping wings at -17 degree farenheit

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Beautiful white swan in blue water. Focus on bird eye.

Swan chicks on the lake

Portrait of a mute swan, an introduced species in North America, on a coastal pond in Connecticut, in winter light. In England and Wales, the monarch owns all mute swans.

Swan about to enter a lake

Swan Lake Teganuma, Chiba prefecture.

Swans close-up on the Sasyk-Sivash lake in the city of Evpatoria, Crimea, Russia

White swan swimming

One swan in lake.

Swans nesting, Marazion, Cornwall, England

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