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Daily Climate: Outside Alaska's largest city, where wildlife is more common than pigeons, locals bearing field glasses turn out every year to watch blazingly white trumpeter swans stop to feed on their way south for the winter. The swans, famed for their French horn call and immortalized by author E.B. White, were nearly hunted to extinction in much of the United States and Canada by the late 1800s for their meat, feathers, down and quills. Now, North America's largest wild fowl may be one of the few good-news......
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Trumpeter Swans Rebound, with an Assist from Global Warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 20th, 2012
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