There are no Trumpeter Swans on the VA list. A Trumpeter Swan was seen at Huntley Meadows Park in Jan 1990. It was a captive bird. The bird was tagged with a number 86. Number 86 was raised by captive Trumpeter Swan parents in Aurora, Ontario near Toronto. It was hatched June 1987. On April 14, 1988, when it was about 10 months old, Harry Lumsden winged-tagged it and took it south with its sibling, number 87, and released it with 6 wild-caught Trumpeters from Comox, BC. The release was from Long Point, Ontario. During that summer it was regularly seen in that area; it moved around that fall and winter. It was reported from a number of places as far south as Galeton, PA( 6 April 1989). Then it returned to Long Point on 18 April 1989. The next report was from Huntley Meadows. Lumsden and others in Ontario were trying to re-establish trumpeters as breeders in Ontario where they were common in the very early days of settlement in the 1700s. For historical records of Trumpeter Swans in Va see the article by David Johnston published in the Virginia Natural History Society in 1996. Charlotte Friend