Canada geese, mallards and whistling swans are frequently seen waterfowl.

Whistling swans spend the summer mating season in the Yukon and come here in the winter to find food.

All specimens from Kansas alleged to be of this species are actually Whistling Swans.

Mute swans are not mute and whistling swans don't really whistle.

Whistling swans start leaving for the breeding grounds again by mid-March, and arrive by late May.

Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans symbolizes the Great Lakes area.

The forest is inhabited by avian species such as mallards, American bald eagles, Canada geese, and whistling swans.

Whistling swans, Canada and snow geese, diving ducks, western and pied-billed grebes, and black terns are frequent visitors.

During the spring, Canada geese, snow geese, Ross' geese, and whistling swans stops in the valley to feed and rest before continuing north.

Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans is a bronze sculpture created by American sculptor Marshall Fredericks in 1963.

From 1973 to 1976, 795 whistling swans, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, were surveyed for microfilariae of the heartworm, Sarconema eurycerca, by blood test.

In addition, the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area is the first resting area for 60,000 whistling swans during their 6,500 km migration trek to the high Arctic.

But the main cause of adult mortality is hunting; 4,000 whistling swans are bagged officially each year, while a further 6,000-10,000 are killed by poachers and native subsistence hunter-gatherers.

On this morning, about 150 of the swans, also called whistling swans, were swimming in the center of one of the largest bogs as a bald eagle circled overhead.

Four hours later, having flown 200 to 300 feet above the taiga's spare treetops spotting moose, whistling swans and other wildlife, we skimmed 1,000-acre Takahula Lake, and disembarked for our overnight stay.

A. The whistling swans, which have a six-foot wing span, have a black bill instead of a reddish yellow bill and it doesn't have a hump in the center like the common mute swan.

Restored wetlands would also filter out pollutants, replenish groundwater reserves and help sustain the sandhill cranes, whistling swans, canvasback ducks and more than 200 bird species that depend on this region for food during migration.

Abby was watching a distant flock of whistling swans, graceful white specks against the dark soaring walls of the Keep, as they made their interminable journey past ramparts, bastions, towers and bridges lit by the low sun.

November 23 - United Airlines Flight 297, a Vickers Viscount 754D, strikes a flock of whistling swans and crashes north of what would later become Columbia, Maryland, killing all 17 people on board.

Unlike whistling swans, which migrate thousands of miles to the Arctic, mutes tend to circle Europe following food crops, the way Canada geese circle North America, and might have caught their infections from poultry in Turkey or Romania.

A pair of Whistling Swans A family of Whistling Swans Description: The adults are small shorter bodied and shorter necked than Trumpeter swan, and a rather shorter bill.

The sea provides a food source for land birds (from snow buntings to whistling swans) that forage in spring on seaweed windrows on storm beaches; winter ice provides access to marine life for arctic foxes, wolves and POLAR BEARS.