[cobirds] swan season is going to be here soon (snow flying this week?)

I just discovered the TTSS (The Trumpeter Swan Society) and encourage folks to turn in any Trumpeter sightings that they are fairly sure of, besides listing them with eBird.This multi-state group is doing good work, and surely has been long before I learned about it.

Celebrate swans a-swimming for the new season!

https://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/what-we-do/trumpeter-watch/report-a-swan.html 

They can of course use donations as well, for ongoing banding and tracking efforts. The amount of territory these critters cover each year is mind-boggling, like many of our long-distance migrators. They seem to be fairly... peripatetic, is that the old-school word? as individuals.

I remember when our elementary school Weekly Reader News said there were fewer than twenty Trumpeters left... Did that stick in anyone else's mind? Living in rural VA, where my farm kid friends still shot Turkey Vultures and even hawks, that was my first whiff of a conservation issue. 

53% of them still die from lead poisoning via lead-based ammunition. They are still considered game birds in Alaska, Utah, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho.

Linda

I acknowledge that I live in the territory of Hinóno'éí (Arapaho) and Cheyenne Nations, according to the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie; and that Colorado's Front Range is home to The Ute & many other Native peoples. Reconozco que vivo en el territorio de las naciones Hinóno'éí (Arapaho) y Cheyenne, según el 1851 Tratado de Fort Laramie; y que el estado de Colorado al esté de las Montañas Rocosas es territorio de Utes y muchos otros pueblos indígenas.