Sunriver Nature Center home to 5 new baby trumpeter swans
Published 5:30 am Saturday, June 15, 2024
- Three trumpeter swan cygnets swim at Sunriver Nature Center. They hatched June 8.
Sunriver Nature Center has confirmed that five baby trumpeter swans — also known as cygnets — hatched at Lake Aspen last weekend.
The cygnets were hatched June 8 by resident trumpeter swans Gus and Valentina. Since 2015, when the Sunriver Nature Center introduced the resident mating pair Chuck and Gracie, 11 cygnets from the nature center have been released at Summer Lake Wildlife Area through Oregon’s Trumpeter Swan Restoration Program.
The cygnets likely won’t receive names of their own, and the nature center intends to release them into the wild sometime next year.
While trumpeter swans are not endangered, their breeding habitat in Oregon is becoming increasingly degraded. The 30-pound waterfowl are the largest in Oregon and only breed in small numbers.