{"id":584477,"date":"2026-04-05T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:35:09","slug":"thousands-of-swans-descend-on-vanderhoof-bringing-birdwatchers-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584477\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of swans descend on Vanderhoof, bringing birdwatchers with them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of swans are flocking to Riverside Park in Vanderhoof, B.C., as part of their bi-annual migration, delighting local residents, birders, photographers and nature enthusiasts. <\/p>\n<p>Bi-annual migration brings thousands of swans to a small northern B.C. town<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/author\/hanna-petersen-1.7284843\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hanna Petersen<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Apr 05, 2026 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 4 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Thousands of birds fly above a river and sit on the water during a sunny spring day\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775421309_841_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Thousands of birds including trumpeter and tundra swans flock to Riverside Park in Vanderhoof, B.C., each spring and fall. (Submitted by Christina Watts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    )<\/p>\n<p>People in northern B.C. have been flocking to Vanderhoof, B.C., to witness the bi-annual swan migration, as they stopover on their journey north to the Arctic for the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of trumpeter and tundra swans have been spending their days at Riverside Park, drawing birders, photographers and nature enthusiasts to the banks of the Nechako River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Large numbers of swans gather at the park each year from March to early April during their bi-annual migration in the spring and then again in the fall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this year has been phenomenal,&#8221; said Terrill Bodner, a Prince George-based photographer who has been visiting the swans in Vanderhoof for more than a decade.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Columbia Thousands of swans are flocking to Riverside Park in Vanderhoof, B.C., as part of their bi-annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-584477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}