{"id":158591,"date":"2026-03-09T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:44:24","slug":"behold-nycs-first-ever-trumpeter-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158591\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold NYC&#8217;s First-Ever Trumpeter Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Behold NYC&#8217;s First-Ever Trumpeter Swan<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload post-hero__img\"  data-  src=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/content\/images\/size\/w100\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design--90-.png\" bad-src=\"\/content\/images\/size\/w30\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design--90-.png\" alt=\"Behold NYC's First-Ever Trumpeter Swan\"\/><br \/>\n          The trumpeter swan in the East River. (Sarah Gonzalez \/ @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/idratherbebirdin\/?hl=en#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">idratherbebirdin<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt mb-0\">A member of the once-near-extinct species has taken up residence in the East River. But why?<\/p>\n<p>                3:01 PM EDT on March 09, 2026<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scotts-picks.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York City\u2014until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lone trumpeter swan, one of only two swans native to North America (the orange-billed mute swans we see in our City parks are <a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/nature\/animals-fish-plants\/mute-swan?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from Europe<\/a>), appeared in the East River early last week, shocking local birders who immediately called in to the Wisconsin-based Trumpeter Swan Society to report what they could scarcely believe they were seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg signup-success\">Great! You\u2019ve successfully signed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg signin-success\">Welcome back! You&#8217;ve successfully signed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg subscribe-success\">You&#8217;ve successfully subscribed to Hell Gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg link-expired\">Your link has expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg checkout-success\">Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg billing-success\">Success! Your billing info has been updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg billing-cancel\">Your billing was not updated.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behold NYC&#8217;s First-Ever Trumpeter Swan The trumpeter swan in the East River. (Sarah Gonzalez \/ @idratherbebirdin) A member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-158591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}