Today the beautiful mute swan is the animal found on Valentine’s Day cards – courting mute swans often make love heart shapes with their necks during the mating season. The series celebrates ...

The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute ... Bittersweet, these beautiful birds. Yet their loveliness ...

The tradition continued into the 1500s when the beautiful birds were ... no evidence of the royals dining on swans. … Since [the Queen] owns all of the mute swans in England and Wales, I find ...