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 ‘Night of Nights’
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High above the reef
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Glendurgan Garden hedge maze is 186 years old
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Big-wave hunters watch Nazaré
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Christmas market in Leipzig, Germany
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Killer whales in Spildra, Norway
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Looking down on the Otter
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The Hermitage of Santa Justa
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turns 103
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Native American Heritage Day
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White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
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Harbor and longtail boats at Ko Samui, Thailand
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A place fit for the gods
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Dyavolski Most
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A Christmas market with a long history
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Thomas Edison s bright idea
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Cecil Brewer Staircase, London
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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Songkran—Thai New Year
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A wonderland in winter
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Pride 2022
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Autumn in Piedmont
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Blue linckia sea stars in Papua New Guinea
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Everyone s watching the Perseids
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Ruins of Inca temples and terraces on Huayna Picchu, Peru
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National Park Week: Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii
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American Eagle Day
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A duckling swimming in a water meadow, Suffolk, England
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A growing business
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The scene of a literary crime
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