By Staff
December 10th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Bev Kingdon has been with the Trumpeter Swan Coalition Restoration project since its earliest days.
Bev Kingdon with Trumpeter swans on the beach at the LaSalle Park Marina where the boaters have learned to share the space with the swans.
At a meeting that had nothing to do with Swans last night, she told us that saving the trumpeter swans have moved from being a Restoration project to being a Sustaining project and that sometime in February the group that deserves the gratitude of people across the province for saving the swans is going to do a province-wide count of the number of swans there are now.
The magnificent birds were on the very edge of extinction. The Coalition now wants to know just how many Trumpeter Swans there are. “We have to do the count across the province in a single day” said Kingdon “because the swans move from place to place and we want to ensure there is no double counting.”
People will be assigned a space and asked to report on the number of swans they see in a single day – and that is going to require hundreds of people to do the counting on a specific day that has yet to be determined.
Grace and Beauty – photograph by Amada Kerr
If the Swans mean anything to you – be in touch with the Trumpeter Swan Coalition and let them know where you live.
This count initiative is in the very early stages – so be patient.
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