Trumpeter Swan Resources:

Website Links:

• Grande Prairie Swan Festival
• The Trumpeter Swan Society
• Grande Prairie-Trumpeter Swan Important Bird Area
• Grande Prairie Important Bird Area
• Canadian Wildlife Service: Hinterland Who’s Who – Trumpeter Swan
• RMP Trumpeters’ US wintering grounds
• Shadow A Swan web site: Trumpeter Swan (Rocky Mountain Population) Migration
• Swan City of Grande Prairie Swan Photo Gallery

Children's Books:

• Annixter, Jane and Paul. Illustrated by Gilbert Riswold, 1973.  Trumpeter: The Story of a Swan.  New York: Holiday House.  A moving story based on the history of the extermination of the swan and its survival in the Rockies area.
• Featherly, Jay, 1986.  Ko-hoh: The Call of the Trumpeter Swan.  A Carolrhoda Nature Watch Book.  Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books Inc.  ISBN 0-87614-288-9.  Basic biology and lovely colour photographs. 
• Scott, Jack Denton, and Ozzie Sweet, 1987.  Swans.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.  ISBN 0-399-21406-2.  Good biology and more up to date.
• Stone, Lynn M. 1997.  Swans.  Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications.  ISBN 0-8225-3019-8  Written for a younger audience than the other books. 
• White, E. B., 1970.  The Trumpet of the Swan.  Harper and Collins.  Fiction.  This book is a classic – a splendid animal fantasy amusing for parents as well as children they are reading to.  Available both as a book and an hilarious book tape.

Other Resources:

• Banko, Winston E., 1960.  The Trumpeter Swan: Its History, Habits and Population in the United States.  North American Fauna No. 63. Washington, DC: US Fish & Wildlife Service.  214 pp. Classic, but unfortunately out of print.
• Bellrose, Frank C.,  1976.  Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books.  A Wildlife Management Institute Book.  Comprehensive biology; range maps, migration routes.
• Birhead, Mike, and Christopher Perrins, 1986.  The Mute Swan.  London: Croom Helm. Biology. ISBN 0-7099-3259-6.  Fascinating history.  Good information on lead poisoning.
• Edwards, Ralph A., 1979, 1997.  Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake.  As told to Ed Gould.  Personal story of vital swan preservation in BC.
• James, M.Lynne, Jan 2000.  Status of the Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) in Alberta.  Alberta Wildlife Status Report No. 26.  Edmonton: Alberta Environment, Fisheries & Wildlife Management Division.
• Johnsgard, Paul A.  1978.  Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World.  U. of Nebraska Press.  Out of print, but a useful book if you can find it.
• Price, Alice Lindsay, 1994.  Swans of the World in Nature, History, Myth and Art.  Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oak Books.  A fascinating cultural approach.  No maps but does have drawings.
• Scott, Peter, and the Wildfowl Trust, 1972.  The Swans.  London: Michael Joseph Ltd.  Best info in this book is quoted from Banko. Bulk of book describes USA waterfowl refuges. Out of date but some powerful philosophy and mythology. Good maps of the four North American flyways. 350 references.
• Trumpeter Swan Society, The.  North American Swans.  Maple Plain, Minnesota: TTSS. Occasional journal.
• Turner, Trudy & Ruth M. McVeigh, 1977, 1981.  Fog Swamp: Living with Swans in the Wilderness. North Vancouver: Hancock House Publishers Ltd.  Classic story of swan preservation in BC.  ISBN 0-919654-63-0 (hard cover), ISBN 0-88839-104-8 (soft cover). 
• White, Marian, (in press, c. 2004).  Habitat and Management Trends Affecting Trumpeter Swans in Alberta, Proceedings and Papers of the Nineteenth Trumpeter Swan Society Conference.  North American Swans 32(1).
• White, Marian & Robin, 2000 (June-July).  Trials of the Trumpeter Swan, in EnCompass Magazine, Vol 4(5):14-16.  Follows the lifecycle of a Trumpeter family and the problems they encounter on their breeding and wintering grounds.