Citizens like you are vital to swan conservation. You can help us learn about migration routes, rest stops, and wintering areas throughout our state for both Trumpeter and Tundra Swans. We share new sightings with swan managers at the state and flyway levels. It is exciting to learn about new areas where our native swans […]
BirdNote is a public media program that brings a short, two-minute show every day—the way you want to listen—on the air, via podcast, online at BirdNote.org and through social media. These two episodes are on Washington’s Swans featuring Martha Jordan, Executive Director of NW Swan Conservation Association. Swans Benefit from Bob Heirman Wildlife Park http://birdnote.org/show/swans-benefit-bob-heirman-wildlife-park
Historical photo of Trumpeter Swans from 1981 at Big Lake near Mt. Vernon, WA. At that time about 400 Trumpeter Swans wintered in this area with about an equal number of Tundra Swans. Now there are about 9,000 swans in this same area. A testament to collaborative work with government agencies, farmers, citizens and nongovernmental
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During one of our regular swan surveys south of Monroe WA, Martha Jordan discovered several dead and sick swans at Crescent Lake in mid-March. Over the next 14 days NWSCA in cooperation with WDFW led an effort to retrieve the sick and dead swans and tally the feather piles of swans that died and were
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After studying the causes of Trumpeter Swan nesting failures in Yellowstone National Park in the 1970s, Ruth dedicated her career to the conservation of Rocky Mountain Trumpeter Swans. Ruth earned her MS in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana in 1979, worked as a biologist for a several federal and state agencies (U.S. National
Ruth Shea – Our conservation and science advisor for eastern WA RMP swans Read More »
