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 ...

The High Court has quashed a decision to refuse planning permission for a windfarm in Co Cork in order to protect the habitat of the whooper swan. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys directed that the ...

Cui Liang, marketing director of Shengtian Lake in Ruicheng county, Yuncheng, Shanxi, told China Daily that the whooper swan is a rare species in China and is classified as a second-class ...