Majestic Trumpeter Swan
by Cheryl Baxter
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Majestic Trumpeter Swan
Artist
Cheryl Baxter
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Photograph - Photography
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I was blessed enough to find a pair of Trumpeter swans on a property that backs onto mine. This would be the 2nd stop for this pair. I am glad they came back!
The Trumpeter Swan was hunted for its feathers throughout the 1600s - 1800s, causing a tremendous decline in its numbers. Its largest flight feathers made what were considered to be the best quality quill pens.
Swans can live a long time. Wild Trumpeter Swans have been known to live longer than 24 years, and one captive individual lived to be 32.
Trumpeter Swans form pair bonds when they are three or four years old. The pair stays together throughout the year, moving together in migratory populations. Trumpeters are assumed to mate for life, but some individuals do switch mates over their lifetimes. Some males that lost their mates did not mate again.
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April 13th, 2013
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