No local record in Clark 1887; 1906; no regional records in Emmons 1833 or Allen 1864. Bagg & Eliot 1937, however, reported that both wild North American Swans — the Whistling and the Trumpeter — were transient in the region in the nineteenth century.
Occasional or accidental transient
December
Not observed by Fischer 1977; not recorded in the Amherst College Bird Survey 2008.
Population is stable, and large enough to sustain a limited hunting season in some areas.*