{"id":3491,"date":"2011-11-27T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2011-11-28T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T03:31:37","slug":"trumpeter-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3491","title":{"rendered":"Trumpeter Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a delight to watch Trumpeter Swans.\u00a0They are beautiful, big, and have recently returned from near extinction.<\/p>\n

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A walk in the Park: two people, three swans.<\/p><\/div>\n

Size
\nThe Trumpeter Swan is the largest species of native waterfowl in North America. It is considerably bigger than its cousin, the Tundra Swan, and it dwarfs the Canada Goose.<\/p>\n

Numbers
\nBy the 1930s, hunting had reduced the Trumpeter Swan to a few dozen breeding pairs in all of North America. While it has made a spectacular comeback, it is still not all that common. The bird is now largely confined to the West where it might visit Kootenay Lake on its spring and fall migrations.<\/p>\n

Beauty
\nI leave that to the pictures.<\/p>\n

A small family of Trumpeter Swans visited Kokanee Creek Provincial Park on Saturday. Two adults and a juvenile swam along the shore and fed in the shallows east of the creek mouth. Although I saw Tundra Swans last April, these were the first Trumpeters I had seen this year.<\/p>\n

A family swims through the shallows: male (largest, left), female (middle) and juvenile (right, greyish plumage).
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A quick shake helps to dry the head after probing underwater for food.
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Suitable for the Trumpeter family photo album: mommy and me.
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The proud parents—Trumpeters usually mate for life.
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A Trumpeter Swan towers over two Mallards feeding alongside.
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