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—until now.
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 from Europe), 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.