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 ...

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 ...