A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 21 and 28 March. Send your photos to [email protected].

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 ...

A corner of Scotland has a successful story to tell ... and large numbers of wigeon, teal and whooper swans. The WWT Caerlaverock initiative is a £325,000 project funded by NatureScot’s Nature ...

It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper swan might make as it gasps for breath – a descending tone of eerie beauty. The royal connection with swans goes back centuries. Even today the ...

A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 21 and 28 ... Ian Niven took this picture of a pair of Whooper swans during their "head bobbing and dipping" courtship ritual at ...