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 ...

Whooper swans roost in the bay in front of Yandunjiao village in Shandong province on Jan 30. LI XINJUN/XINHUA This winter, the flocks of whooper swans waiting out the chilly weather in East China ...

Each winter, large numbers of whooper swans escape the cold of Siberia and northern Mongolia, their summer breeding grounds, and migrate to Lake Kussharo on Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. Here hot ...

A record number of whooper swans have been counted at a nature reserve near Boston. RSPB Frampton Marsh tallied 1,440 of the birds on one day last month, as it took part in the national Wetland ...

Nature and photography enthusiasts who come to Ercis district in Van province take pictures of the swans. Turkey’s Lake Van basin, which is home to many different bird species, hosts whooper ...