Two trumpeter swans recorded at Rapids Lake Unit, Minnesota Valley NWR, Carver County, Minnesota
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Apparently Secure (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Anseriformes
Family:
Anatidae
Genus:
Cygnus
Species:
C. buccinator
Binomial name
Cygnus buccinator
Richardson, 1831
Range
Breeding
Year-round
Non-breeding
The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) 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 304.8 cm (6 ft 2 in to 10 ft 2 in).[3][4] It is the American counterpart and a close relative of the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) of Eurasia, and even has been considered the same species by some authorities.[5] By 1933, fewer than 70 wild trumpeters were known to exist, and extinction seemed imminent, until aerial surveys discovered a Pacific population of several thousand trumpeters around Alaska's Copper River.[6] Careful reintroductions by wildlife agencies and the Trumpeter Swan Society gradually restored the North American wild population to over 46,000 birds by 2010.[7]
^BirdLife International (2021). "Cygnus buccinator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22679859A136992006. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22679859A136992006.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^"NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^Madge, Steve; Burn, Hilary (1988). Waterfowl: An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese, and Swans of the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-46727-5.
^Morony, John J.; Bock, Walter Joseph; Farrand, John (1975). Reference list of the birds of the world. New York: American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/6700. OCLC 483451163.
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American trumpeterswan, and the type species for the genus Cygnus. Francis Willughby and John Ray's Ornithology of 1676 referred to this swan as "the...
swan and tundra swan are wholly migratory, and the trumpeterswans are almost entirely migratory. There is some evidence that the black-necked swan is...
living on this planet by wingspan, at maximum, assumed to be reliable by experts and verified records. https://www.britannica.com/animal/trumpeter-swan...
the whistling swan gives a markedly high-pitched trisyllabic bark like wow-wow-wow in flight. By contrast, the whooper and trumpeterswans' names accurately...
the trumpeterswan, although male mute swans can easily match or even exceed a male trumpeter in mass. Among standard measurements of the mute swan, the...
Status of Missouri's experimental TrumpeterSwan restoration program. In Proc. and Papers of the 10th TrumpeterSwan Society Conf., edited by D. Compton...
adult tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus). Young trumpeterswans (Cygnus buccinator) are also taken, and an unsuccessful attack on an adult swan has been photographed...
bird, and its weight of up to 12 kg (26 lb) nearly equals that of the trumpeterswan, the heaviest among native North American bird species. The condor is...
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northernmost city with more than 50,000 people. The city has adopted the trumpeterswan as its official symbol due to its proximity to the birds migration route...
especially for such waterfowl as the trumpeterswan. By the mid-1930s, there were an estimated 69 trumpeterswans remaining in the lower 48 states and...
Missouri's experimental TrumpeterSwan restoration program", in Compton, D. (ed.), In Proc. and Papers of the 10th TrumpeterSwan Society Conf., Maple Plain...
name Marais des Cygnes means "Marsh of the Swans" in French (presumably in reference to the trumpeterswan which was historically common in the Midwest)...
population of trumpeterswans east of the Rockies in the 1600s was estimated at 130,000. Annually, between three and five thousand swans were killed, which...
important to First Nations people for cultural activities. There are trumpeterswans known to be on Club Creek in the winter. In 1950, a B-36 crashed in...
Ralph Edwards, who worked to preserve migration habitat there for the trumpeterswan. The Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail is a heritage trail that follows...
1970 novel The Trumpet of the Swan. Louis the trumpeterswan learns the tune during his long journey to find his voice via a stolen trumpet and a chalk slate...
best known for being the primary location for the efforts saving the trumpeterswan from extinction, which by 1932 had fewer than 200 known specimens in...
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