After four consecutive years of excessive numbers of trumpeter swans killed by hunters, Utah wildlife officials propose outlawing the hunting of the rare waterfowl.
, considered North America’s largest bird, for years because they are easily mistaken for the much more common, but smaller tundra swan. Utah expanded its annual total of swan permits from 2,000 to 2,750 in 2019, when only a few trumpeters were killed each year and never enough to shut down the swan hunt early, according to Heather Talley, DWR’s upland game coordinator.
“Prior to 2019, we’ve only had 20 harvested trumpeter swans recorded in the state,” Talley said in anexplaining the proposed rule. “And since 2019, 85 trumpeter swans have been reported in Utah’s harvest data.” “The decline of permits being filled is largely attributed to the early season closures in 2021 and 2022, as there were no early freezes in those years causing migration prior to the closure. These early closures are impeding the opportunity of our swan hunters,” Talley said. “In the last two years, more people have been harvesting trumpeter swan from public shooting grounds, which has been an unintended consequence of increasing the boundary to offer more opportunity.
Last year, one swan hunter posted photos of himself on social media holding a deceased trumpeter, boasting how he passed numerous chances to shoot a tundra swan in hopes of getting a bead on a trumpeter.
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