The Trumpeter Swan: Its History, Habits, and Population in the United States

214 pp. Paperback in very good condition. A Bison Book. Reprint of the 1960 edition published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, which was issued as no. 63 of North America fauna.

Admired in poems by Yeats and Malarme, in a tone poem of Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky's ballet, swans lose neither their nobility nor grace in this scrupulously scientific book. Trumpeter swans are native to North America, but faced extinction not so long ago. The history of their decline and recovery is a major part of Banko's book. His descriptions of the swans' behavior, habitat, and wildlife management are fortified by maps, photographs, and tables, to present an authoritative study of one of the world's most remarkable birds.