10 Notable Facts About Swans

Not-at-All-Ugly Trumpeter Swan Cygnets Hatch at Maryland Zoo

The trumpeter swan & albino mallard

Meet North America's heaviest flying bird - Trumpeter Swans! These birds are very slowly migrating south. They won't get all the way to the gulf though - they'll stay where they can find open water, usually in parts of Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, but in a warm year, that might be here! I caught groups of these swans coming in for a landing on the open water of the Trempealeau River in Perrot State Park, right before it meets up with the #MightyMississippi. Since