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 ...

It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper swan might make as ... Ancient Egyptians celebrated the swan’s beauty, and the history of art is littered with pictures of ravishingly beautiful ...

Whooper swans roost in the bay in front of Yandunjiao village in Shandong province on Jan 30. LI XINJUN/XINHUA This winter, the flocks of whooper swans waiting out the chilly weather in East China ...