When the streams, lakes and marshes of the Eastern United States lost the trumpeter swan, they lost a majestic bird whose snowy white feathers contrast with jet-black bills, legs and feet. With a wingspan between 7 and 8 feet, the swan is the largest waterfowl in the United States; males can weigh 35 pounds.

"It's an absolutely stunning sight, on a fall morning, in the fog, to see this pure white bird with its black bill," says Sumner Matteson, an avian ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) who is participating in a reintroduction project. "In these still mornings, it has one of the most haunting calls you'll ever hear."

After two years of false starts, DNR biologists began collecting egg

At least in Florida, septic tanks -- not to mention the even more primitive "cesspits" don't work. If you flush something down a toilet today, you can find it tomorrow in the nearby ocean.

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Cygnets are raised in pens on the shore of a pond for 12 weeks. Then they are allowed to roam the entire pond (with some flight feathers removed, they can't fly). After two years on the pond, they are transported to wetlands in northern Wisconsin and released.

Can scientists assess ocean-borne diseases without flushing a toilet?

How do you train captive animals that are born to be wild?

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