4.2K views · 36 shares | As you head to the pool to practice your first swan dives of the season, the Zoo's trumpeter swan cygnets are, well, practicing their first swan dives, too. See them test their swimming and diving skills daily at the Farmyard pond. | The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore | Facebook

Wish our favorite swan siblings well on their journey to the wild! 🦢🦢 Two trumpeter swans who hatched at the Zoo in May 2023 made a recent cross-country journey for an important conservation mission. They are set to be released to a wildlife area in eastern Oregon in June as part of a newly formed flock of trumpeter swans from nine zoos across the country. The wild trumpeter swan population has rapidly dwindled in Oregon to just six breeding pairs in 2023. Conservationists hope the release of

268 reactions · 87 shares | #DidYouKnow the trumpeter swan is the largest swan in the world? In the early 1930s the species was nearly locally extinct in Canada, but swift and substantial conservation efforts have nearly doubled the population objectives for trumpeter swans in North America. Read more about this now, "Not At Risk" species in our #LPRC2020: wwf.ca/lprc2020 #ReverseWildlifeLoss | WWF-Canada | Facebook

11K views · 564 reactions |  Sound the trumpets—Swan Lake is now...