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Come Blow Your Horn |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Dwight G. Smith |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,629 Words, 10,254 Characters |
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A short, sharp honk cuts through the crisp, clean air of a February morning. It is followed by another blast and yet another. Echoing again and again from the nearby hills, the honks signal that courtship time is near for the several small flocks of trumpeter swans on the lake that has served as their winter home. Swimming slowly in pairs, the adult birds occasionally arch their wings, as if in preparation for the coming spring migration to their northern breeding grounds.
The honking continues from a larger flock, consisting of first-year and older birds. Most are still too young to breed, but this is the month that the second-and third-year swans will court and choose their lifelong mates. The larger birds pair tentatively at first, then more confidently, billing and cooing and softly...
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...ecognizing these problems, U.S. and Canadian wildlife agencies continue to fund trumpeter recovery efforts--including scientific study, captive breeding, introducing the swan into additional areas of its former range, and providing grain during the worst of winter's cold and snow. These measures should help secure the wilderness future of the largest and most magnificent of the world's swans.
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