Resilient

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Waterfowl jumbo, eight feet from wingtip to wingtip.

One football field for take-off.

North America’s heaviest fowl.

If bigness is beauty, Trumpeter swans win.

Majesty, white feathered flying French horn!

Cob and Pen, expert nest engineers,

28 to 35 days nest building

a structure 11 feet across, 3 feet high;

a 4 to 6 egg strongbox for cygnets.

Trumpeter metabolism burns nearly twenty pounds of aquatic vegetation…

daily.

Enormous feet, extended lengthy necks enable feeding.

Shallow wetlands produce such feed.

Nearly extinct in 1900…over thirty thousand today.

Conservation?

Yes.

Resilient creation the greatest factor.

An infinite Creator… builds in resiliency.