The University of Nevada, Reno said a necropsy is being done on Zeus, the swan that was found dead earlier this month. A necropsy is what an animal autopsy is called. The college announced March ...

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 ...

Around 10,000 adult pairs were found, with the rest made up of chicks, young adults without nests, and birds migrating across Finland from Russia. Whooper swans are Finland’s national bird and feature ...

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