NOTES: A DEFINITE RECORD OF THE TRUMPETER SWAN FROM NEW MEXICO

Abstract

An adult Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator) was illegally shot and killed on Bear Canyon Reservoir in the Mimbres River Valley east of Silver City, New Mexico, on or about 23 February 1977. One of my students, Wyatt Pickering, salvaged the bird from the reservoir and although it had been partially eaten by fish or turtles, I prepared it as a study skin (DAZ 2660) which presently is housed at Western New Mexico University.