Editor’s note: Parts of this article are featured in the latest season of our Chesapeake Uncharted podcast, available at bayjournal.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. The season is a companion to ...

Spotting elegant tundra swans can brighten cold wintry days. Between mid-November and mid-December, we cherish hearing their soft mellow vocalization “hoo-hoo” calls before we see the swans overhead ...

In early morning at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, we can see the far shore of the wetland, almost one half mile away, through a path of trimmed open space where we have a seep or ...

Tundra swans — at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost 6 feet — are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of Alaska. Not too long ago, Alaska scientists discovered more about where the ...

Though we have seen tundra swans in the region throughout November, I learned Thanksgiving week that some of them were actually transmitting the story of their journey through radio telemetry. In ...

In a major change to swan hunting in Utah, state wildlife officials propose banning the taking of trumpeter swans, a rare large-bodied cousin to tundra swans. Tundra swans would remain legal to shoot ...