Study to monitor swan health in the Lower Basin of the Coeur d'Alene River
Tundra swans resting in the east field of the Schlepp Wetlands captured by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife game camera.
Photo courtesy of U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Colored collars that will be used to mark swans.
Photo courtesy of U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Tundra Swan on Coeur d'Alene River WMA.
Photo courtesy of JULIE LININGER
The Lower Basin of the Coeur d’Alene River consists of thousands of acres of wetland habitat that lie along the migration corridor for the Tundra Swan. Over 150 years of mining in the Silver Valley have deposited contaminated mine tailings and sediment into the marshes and floodplains of the Lower Basin...
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