NatureScot, Scotland’s nature agency ... the bird hides to spot migrating pink-footed geese, tufted ducks and whooper swans. Taynish, Argyll – two-hour circular route from reserve car park.
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky did not, after all, write Duck Pond. The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute ...
A corner of Scotland has a successful story to tell ... and large numbers of wigeon, teal and whooper swans. The WWT Caerlaverock initiative is a £325,000 project funded by NatureScot’s Nature ...
It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper swan might make as it gasps for breath – a descending tone of eerie beauty. The royal connection with swans goes back centuries. Even today the ...