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• Swan’s long run at Turnbull Refuge ends on high note

    April 3, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 An elderly trumpeter swan that could teach sports teams a thing or two about commitment, determination and achievement has ended his long run at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The swan …

• Washington key to trumpeter swan comeback

  April 3, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 The number of trumpeter swans in Washington has grown in recent years after nearly going extinct. According to Seattle Audubon’s “Bird Web,” fewer than 100 trumpeter swans were alive south …

• First flight made by Solo’s brood at Turnbull

  September 12, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C13 Five trumpeter swan cygnets that hatched at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge this spring put their wings to the test this week and lifted their ample bodies off the water for …

• Retired physician honored for grousing around scablands

  May 23, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 A Spokane woman is honored to be following the reintroduction of sage grouse in Lincoln County. Kim Thorburn of Spokane has been named the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department’s Volunteer … 1

• Swan brings brood back to Turnbull, quelling fears he was killed

    January 26, 2010 in City on Page A1 As he has for possibly more than four decades, the trumpeter swan nicknamed Solo returned Monday to the year’s first big patch of ice-free water at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. … 2

• Solo the trumpeter swan still alive

    January 25, 2010 in News, Outdoors Ending fears that he may have been killed by poachers in Stevens County, the trumpeter swan nicknamed Solo returned Monday to the year’s first big patch of ice-free water at … 3

• Birdwatchers unite to catch killer of rare trumpeter swan

  January 7, 2010 in News, Outdoors on Page B1 A wildlife murder mystery is unfolding in the Colville River Valley with possible links to one of the region’s remarkable romance stories. Local birdwatchers already have built a reward of … 8

• Elderly swan a dad again after 22 years

  June 23, 2009 in Outdoors, City on Page A1 The drought is over for a geriatric but persistent trumpeter swan who has sired the first cygnets to be born at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge since 1987. Four grayish-white puffballs …

• Elderly swan a dad again after 22 years

  June 22, 2009 in Outdoors, City The drought is over for a geriatric but persistent trumpeter swan which has sired the first cygnets since 1987 at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The four grayish-white puffballs hatched near …

• Trumpeter swans set free

  May 7, 2008 in City on Page B3 OVANDO, Mont. – Ten more trumpeter swans were released this week near Ovando in an effort to re-establish a migrating population in the Blackfoot River Valley. “We’re right at the …

• 15 more swans to be placed in Montana valley

  May 8, 2006 in City on Page A12 GREAT FALLS – Wildlife biologists plan to place 15 trumpeter swans in the Blackfoot Valley next month and hope some of the 10 swans placed at a pond in the …

• For this male trumpeter swan, it’s truly a Solo act

  April 4, 2002 in Outdoors Solo, the iconic trumpeter swan at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, was named by Spokesman-Review outdoors editor Rich Landers in this column about the swan, then a widower, on April 4, …