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 ...

Eighteen whooper swans have been found dead in a field after flying into power lines, a wildlife officer has said. The birds were discovered on farmland between Chatteris and Somersham in ...

Young whooper swans practice flying in Rongcheng, Shandong province, to prepare for their upcoming long-distance migration. [Photo by Li Xinjun/For] ...

See how white shows up in the unexpected and the everyday in this gallery. Here, whooper swans take flight above a frozen landscape in Japan. The swans take off mostly on water, but can also do so ...

The Saigawa River, which runs through the city, is a well-known wintering site for whooper swans migrating from Siberia. In peak years, more than 1,000 swans gather to rest in the area.

Bird flu has been confirmed in a wild goose found near Dungannon, a buzzard near Moira, and a whooper swan in Portballintrae. The wild goose was the first wild bird to test positive in Northern ...

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 ...

Nature and photography enthusiasts who come to Ercis district in Van province take pictures of the swans. Turkey’s Lake Van basin, which is home to many different bird species, hosts whooper ...