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 ...

But biologist Chris Perrins disagrees: “Find me a kinky human, and I’ll find you a ... It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper swan might make as it gasps for breath – a descending ...

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 says about 2,000 tundra swans and whooper swans were confirmed to have arrived as of Tuesday. The swans were seen resting on the water. When observatory workers scattered barley feed ...