Native to North America, trumpeter swans live near rivers, lakes, and coastal byways in northern and western US states in the lower 48, as well as in Canada and Alaska. Depending on where they live, these swans are either resident birds or medium-range migrators. What they all require, though, is year-round access to open water, since their diet consists almost entirely of aquatic plants. That may be why the swans in this image are drawn to the waters of Kelly Warm Springs in Wyoming, which won"t freeze even as snow lines the banks.
Did they forget to fly south?
Today in History
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Tolkien Reading Day
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A visionary artist paints his own garden view
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Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska
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Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
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Satla marshland in Bangladesh
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Baltic Sea, Estonia
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Merry Christmas!
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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You won’t see this on Mulberry Street
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Penn Station
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Wooden path to Kennedy Lake, Vancouver Island, Canada
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Mona Vale Rockpool, Sydney, Australia
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Kings of the Kalahari
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In search of a ‘great’ pumpkin
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That s quite a schnoz, baby tapir
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Southern lights for Antarctica Day
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World Laughter Day—it s a hoot
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Happy Fathers Day!
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National Blueberry Day
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Tombeau du Géant in Bouillon, Belgium
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Great white egret, Upper Bavaria, Germany
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Go climb a tree
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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Hippo family in Chobe National Park, Botswana
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Dragon dance performed in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
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Tegallalang terrace farms in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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World Wildlife Day
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