Ankeny Swans
by Nick Boren
Title
Ankeny Swans
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Photography
Description
There were quite a few trumpeter swans out and about when I visited the Ankeny bird refuge near Albany Oregon. Unfortunately, they were a great distance away from my camera, even at shooting with a 700mm lens.
From Wikipedia:
The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a species of swan found in North America. The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 304.8 cm (6 ft 2 in to 10 ft 2 in).[3][4] It is the American counterpart and a close relative of the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) of Eurasia, and even has been considered the same species by some authorities.[5] By 1933, fewer than 70 wild trumpeters were known to exist, and extinction seemed imminent, until aerial surveys discovered a Pacific population of several thousand trumpeters around Alaska's Copper River.[6] Careful reintroductions by wildlife agencies and the Trumpeter Swan Society gradually restored the North American wild population to over 46,000 birds by 2010.[7]
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February 12th, 2024
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