Is there a hunting season specifically designated for trumpeter swan?
No. Swan hunting seasons are designed to target tundra swans, which are much more numerous that trumpeter swans. As mentioned above, the two swan species are very difficult to differentiate in the field. To monitor and limit accidental deaths of trumpeter swans due to misidentification by hunters, limits of 10 trumpeter swans in Utah and five in Nevada are allowed during permit-only hunts in those states. All hunters that shoot a swan must take it to a check station to have it identified. If a limit is reached, all swan hunting is closed immediately in that state. This assures that the accidental harvest of trumpeter swans remains small. How many trumpeters swans were killed in the Utah and Nevada hunts in the last few years? Since 1994, only one trumpeter swan has been detected in the swan harvests in Nevada. In most years in Utah, between zero and three swans per year have been encountered at check stations, where hunters must take their swan to be identified. In one year (1997), sev
