TRUMPET OF THE SWAN
10 phone calls a day come into the Audubon Center at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, near Alton, from folks hoping to see swans. “Some days, it’s nonstop,” says the center’s executive director, Ken Buchholz, “and one of the first questions visitors ask when they walk in the center is ‘Where are the swans today?’” They mean trumpeter swans—, our continent’s largest native waterfowl. The ones with the angel-white feathers and black bills, the long necks and wings that-ing thousands.
