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 ...

Police say they are investigating the deaths of three swans in Glen Shiel in the Highlands ... a layby on the A87 east of Cluanie Inn. Police Scotland said the discovery was made on Thursday ...

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 ...

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 ...