Trumpeter swans are making a comeback in Iowa. The birds attempted a modern-day record of 158 nests in 2025, which is an ...

IOWA (KCAU) — Last year will go in the record books for trumpeter swans in the Hawkeye State. In 2025, Iowa’s trumpeter swans attempted a record 158 nests. Native to Iowa, and the state’s largest ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has identified a record number of trumpeter nests. The species was reintroduced in Iowa in 1993. “Their population has been slowly recovering since then,” DNR ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is calling the increased population of the state's trumpeter swans a " true modern-day conservation success story." Iowa trumpeter swans attempted ...

The large white birds are native to Iowa but the population was decimated by the late 1800s. However, the birds had a modern-day record 158 nest attempts in 2025.

GOOSE LAKE, Iowa - A trumpeter swan, released into the wild as part of an initiative to reintroduce the bird to Iowa's landscape, is recovering from a wing amputation after she was shot. Authorities ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- An animal keeper at the national zoo in Washington, D.C., is sending her first begotten trumpeter swan to her home state of Iowa next month to help repopulate the once ...

LAURENS, Iowa (AP) -- Rewards totaling $5,500 have been offered for anyone with information on a pair of trumpeter swans shot and killed near Pickeral Lake in northwest Iowa. The rare birds were shot ...