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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

See how white shows up in the unexpected and the everyday in this gallery. Here, whooper swans take flight above a frozen landscape in Japan. The swans take off mostly on water, but can also do so ...

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 ...

During the winter months, more than 30,000 barnacle geese "descend" on the Scottish site from Arctic Svalbard alongside "vast ...

Matt is captivated by a breathtaking display by whooper swans while assisting with crucial winter counts, and Charlotte joins volunteers building a new hide, offering visitors a closer look at the ...