I guess I never thought about swans as migratory birds. They always seemed to me to something out of folk tales and special places. One of my earliest memories is of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a surprise to see all these swans in the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area next to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. It is hard to see without zooming in on the photo, but these are probably Tundra Swans or Cygnus columbianus because of the yellow markings on their bills. Here is a close up of one of the swans showing the yellow markings on its bill.
