Trumpeter swan Michigan turned this line northwards, placing a hypothetical eastern boundary up through Ontario to western Quebec and the eastern shore of James Bay. In 1984, Harry G. Lumsden posited that trumpeter swans may have been extirpated from eastern Canada by native people armed with firearms prior to the arrival of European explorers and noted archaeological remains of trumpeter swans as far east as Port au Choix, Newfoundland dating to 2,000 BCE. He cited historical observer records of what must have been breeding trumpeters, such as Father Hennepin's August report of swans on the Detroit River from Lake St. Clair to
Trumpeter finch are four recognised subspecies: The genus name is from Ancient Greek "bukanetes", "trumpeter", and the specific "githagineus" is Latin from " Githago", the corn cockle (from "gith", "coriander", and "-ago" "resembling"). Temminck believed that the bird's name was derived from that of the plant. Trumpeter finch The trumpeter finch ("Bucanetes githagineus") is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird breeds in the Canary Islands, across north Africa, and in the Middle East and into central Asia. There is a small European population in southern Spain. Many birds are largely resident, but there is post-breeding dispersal, and