Hmmmm...I wonder how they got the name Trumpeter Swan.

The best time to view the tundra swans is from mid-October through mid-November, Two viewing areas are at the Watchable Wildlife Observation Platform at Rieck's Lake Park near Alma, Wisconsin, and along Highway 61 near Weaver Minnesota. References to Other Bird Sites: These are links to websites pertaining to the different birding institutions, societies and organizations here in North America. While in flight, the Bewick's Swan makes low and soft ringing bark bow-wow calls; while the Tundra Swan makes high-pitched bark-like sounds: wow-wow-wow. A trumpeter, well, sounds like a loud trumpet with a single or double honk while a tundra has a noisy, higher-pitched yodel, or bugling call similar to Canada geese. Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. Return Swans back to Waterfowl. Breeding. Mute Swans have an orange and black beak, and the Trumpeter Swan has a completely black beak. The Whooper and Trumpeter Swans make deep hooting and a higher-pitched French horn-like honk vocalizations, which serves as one method of identification. The Tundra Swan (formerly named the Whistling Swan) is identifiable by its black beak and has a small patch of yellow close to the eye. Honk If You Love Snow Geese. The Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) is a small Holarctic swan.The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes [1] split into two species, Cygnus bewickii (Bewick's Swan) of the Palaearctic and the Whistling Swan, C. columbianus proper, of the Nearctic. If that description is a bit hard to get your mind around, you can hear a Tundra Swan call in flight. The flocks of tundra swans stick around Madison as long as the lakes’ shallower waters are ice-free and they can find food. They also go in for synchronised swimming, head bobbing and "singing". Tundra Swans have a shorter more concave bill … Swan courtship is both beautiful, and noisy. Such great numbers of tundra swans only appear in this area on their route south. Tundra Swans have a high-pitched, often quavering OO-OO-OO accentuated in the middle; or WHO, WHO-HO, WOO-OO-WOOO, or WHO-WHO. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Swan Types. Whooper Swan. He also notes that the Trumpeter’s eye is broadly connected to the black bill, whereas the Tundra’s eye appears nearly separate from the bill. Trumpeters have an unmistakable resonant, loud, trumpet-like call. The time from laying to hatching is 29–30 days for Bewick's swan and 30–32 days for the whistling swan. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands.

The swan presently on Ocracoke is very vocal, often making a single honk call. ... For one thing, thanks to a coiled, looping windpipe, they can honk. The male Swan is known as a "Cob" and the female is known as a "Pen" and it is said that these birds mate for life.

Return Swans to Home Page. Tundra swans have a high-pitched, quavering call, while trumpeter swans have a deep, gentle honk in a series of two to three notes. Tundra Swan. Author: Whidbey Camano Land Trust | 02/18/19 ... Mixed in with the trumpeters are likely to be at least a few Tundra Swan.