First Nesting Attempt by Reintroduced Trumpeter Swans

black and white photo of 5 large eggs in a nest cup of dried leaves. The eggs are as long a a pen that was included in the photo to show scale.
Photo By/Credit

USFWS

Date Shot/Created
06/08/1966
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
These five eggs are the first documented nesting attempt by a three-year-old swan who was translocated to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in 1963. The nest was abandoned later that season. The following year would mark the first successful Refuge's first successful nest since the start of the Trumpeter Swan reintroduction project started in 1960.
Facility
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
Ecosystem
Wetland
Species
Cygnus buccinator
Subject tags
History
Species reintroduction
Wildlife refuges