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Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

10,000 Birds

Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. My sister told me they were Trumpeter Swans ( Cygnus buccinator ). All of them. Or almost so.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

10,000 Birds

And of Wyoming. Or, to be perfectly honest, playing games on Facebook, but let’s not talk about that. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. They appear regularly on our Christmas Bird Counts and number in the hundreds. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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