An Ecologist<p>Only ~70 trumpeter swans were known to remain in the wild when the species stood on the brink of extinction in the 1930s. During the decades of conservation that followed, it was widely assumed that wild trumpeter swans were very shy and vulnerable to disturbance. Almost a century later, this pair sits preening within thirty feet of an auto-tour. Perhaps they are not all so shy. April 18. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idaho</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publiclands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publiclands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wetlands</span></a></p>