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Weighing as much as 30 pounds as adults, with wingspans that can exceed 10 feet, Minnesota’s trumpeter swans were killed for food by early settlers. By the 1880s, few, if any, were left in the state.

“I put together a proposal to bring 50 trumpeter eggs back from Alaska in three successive years and hatch them here,” Henderson said. “We had the money to do it from the chickadee checkoff on state taxpayer forms. Northwest Airlines provided free transportation from Alaska. To keep them warm, we carried the eggs in overhead compartments in first class.”

Hatched at Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area not far north of the Twin Cities, the young swans — cygnets — were released at just under 2 years of age in the Detroit Lakes, Minn., area.

Image caption: Carrol Henderson started with just a few trumpeter swan eggs collected in Alaska in the early 80s and now has a thriving population. (Tom Wallace/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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