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 ...

The event, organised by BirdLife Finland, found a total of 46,700 birds in some 2,300 locations. Around 10,000 adult pairs were found, with the rest made up of chicks, young adults without nests, and ...