GOOSE LAKE, Iowa — Local lore has it that when settlers first arrived here about 1850, the lake that came to be known as Goose Lake appeared white to the ...

While the eagles and the Canada goose are recovering, the trumpeter swan died Tuesday morning. The way the four birds have been treated is incredibly frustrating and hurtful, Gibson said.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say hunters thought they were shooting at a snow goose but actually killed a rare trumpeter swan at a conservation area in far southern Illinois.

Tundra swans look almost identical to trumpeter swans, especially at a distance, and a tundra swan hunter who mistakenly shoots a trumpeter is subject to a fine. That rarely — if ever — happens.

A Trumpeter swan’s wingspan on a big adult bird is right in the neighborhood of six feet from wing tip to wing tip — which is substantially larger than a goose. A Trumpeter swan probably ...

Trumpeter swans measure 6-8 feet from wing tip to wing tip, while snow geese measure only about 3 feet. Most important, snow geese can be hunted during waterfowl season, but there is never a legal ...

The Jackson Police Department added a new feature to its Goose Mitigation Program: a trumpeter swan decoy. In addition to the coyote and owl decoys, Jackson police said this new decoy will help ...