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BIRDS AFTER )MOEN
SWANS 1:10
The Interior Department has loaneda pair of graceful
additions t-e-]):i'.s '. They 're Trumpeter Swans,
and they tre almost as rare as an introvert in a nudist
camp. In 1935, when this variety of swan seemed headed
toward the same fate as the dodo bird, the federal gov
ernment stepped in and passed a law to protect the
trumpeters. The birds, numbering about seven hundred,
are found only in the United States. In 1910, the swans
were believed almost extinct, but nine years later, two
pairs were discovered on lakes in Yellowstone National
Park, Later, the park service started a program to
build up the flok,
The Dallas birds, a male and a female, are Just over
two years old, considered young adults, The trumpeter
is the largest and strongest vareity of swan, but they
are suseptible to certain viruses and require specialcare. tmans might take a lesson from their fidelity.
When the trumpeter hoses a V mate, it s a lifelong
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Swans], script, July 14, 1962; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946881/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.