Alaska allows hunting tundra swans but not trumpeters. I didn't think anyone allowed shooting trumpeters; somehow that just seems wrong and would offer nothing resembling 'sport'. It's an odd system here, or was the last I read of it. You get only one permit at a time. You then go out and harvest one and have to go back and get another permit. I guess they allow it but make it difficult. I think it may be limited to western and southwestern Ak also. Not even sure. Personally, I like nothing more than to come in on top of a flock of many hundreds with my plane, take a few pictures of the white against the green canvas of the landscape then drop down and off to the side, slow up and form up with them at a distance and watch for a bit. Quite the sight that. They are the very last birds to leave. When the lakes are frozen over except for a hole in the middle and there will be hundreds on the ice and some on the water. I think it takes the young a long time to be ready for the flight south so they leave late and in huge flocks. Absolutely gorgeous sight to see them winging along with the snowy peaks of the Alaska Range as a backdrop.
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