Above: Tundra swans are not rare but they are uncommon visitors to our region. Nine of those birds were captured in this picture. Timing is everything — 20 minutes later the flock took wing.

Two longtime residents of the Lafayette Square neighborhood gifted the park with a pair of female swans in 2007: Samantha and Sofia. Samantha died in February.

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans.

The first animated couple in primetime — and chronologically, just the first couple, period — the Flintstones both followed ...

Bagley started working for The Tribune shortly after graduation and has published more than 6,000 cartoons for the ...

Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, Politico and other publications throughout the US.

Huge flocks of migrating geese, swans and other birds swoop into the lake for a rest on their long migration from as far ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

Following their Opening Round defeat to Hawthorn, the Swans needed to rebound at the SCG in a huge match-up with a Brisbane Lions side that crushed their grand final dreams last year. Watch your ...

Take geese and swans for example. We’ve all heard of a “gaggle” or “flock” but when they’re flying, it’s called a “skein.” A group of swans on the ground or in the water is a ...

Police are investigating after two women reported being groped as they walked home from a Kent railway station. Jewellery and money were stolen from a woman aged in her 90s when a bogus caller ...