• Painting “Swans Swing in the Pond” by Malathip
• Words by Richard
• Reference: Wikipedia

The rarest swan in the world is also the largest native bird in North America. The Trumpeter swans fly in V-shaped flocks as they make their annual migrations South. The Trumpeters mate for life as most parents raise the young. They were heavily hunted hundreds of years ago almost rendering them extinct. A resurgence in recent years has quelled most concerns about them. Though heavy competition for food as well as poor environmental conditions still place these beautiful birds at risk and in Minnesota, they are classified as threatened.

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* trumpeter swans are left in the Yukon