Each year from October through March, Tundra Swans and Trumpeter Swans gather at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in great numbers. In February 2026, I spent three consecutive afternoons with the swans at the refuge’s River S unit. On the third afternoon, as sunset approached and the swans were settling in for the night, something magical happened.
Each early-winter rut, Rocky Mountain bighorn gather at Miller Butte in the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyoming. On a cold December day, young rams tested their mettle for mating.
A four-minute video at Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery shows typical behaviors of a northern elephant seal pod on the central California coast.
Spend 25 minutes on the African savannah with elephants, giraffes, leopards, lions, hippos and more. Filmed in Kruger National Park, Life Outside the Fence shows species that have thrived for millennia yet now depend on our care.