the trumpeter swan, the mute swan and the tundra swan (sometimes known as the whistling swan). Trumpeter swans almost went extinct during the early 1900s—fewer than 100 were in the Lower 48 at ...

Trumpeter swans aren't quite as graceful or demure as mute swans, but they're even larger. They're about twice the size of tundra swans, and the largest specimens can be around 40 pounds without ...

The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute, Bewick's, black, and black-necked fill out the ranks.

Even today the Queen has the right to claim any unmarked mute swan swimming in open water. The Mute Swan – the classic swan seen in British parks – isn’t actually mute, but grunts and hisses.

Swans around the world have been admired for centuries. Of seven species known worldwide, only two native species are ...