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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The Colosseum of Rome, Italy
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An unlikely friendship in the wild
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Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
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Pollinator Week
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Remembering the Arizona
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Even nature needs a backup plan…
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Castle on a hill
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World Space Week begins
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Go with the rainbow flow
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Why, aloe there
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Boxing Day
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Nothing plain about it
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Native American Heritage Month
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Where the glow of the holidays lingers
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Glass footbridge in Zhangjiajie, China
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Bidding summer adieu
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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European hedgehog in Sussex, England
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Anybody out there?
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A Flag Day tradition
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Celebrating women in science
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Frozen fun in the Canadian cold
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The Bahamas
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World Rainforest Day
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St. Patricks Day
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And they’re off!
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Beethoven s 250th
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It s Star Wars Day
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Upstate autumn