It is also a swan of superlatives. With a population of about 180,000, the whooper, though vulnerable to loss of habitat, is among the most abundant of swans and trumps others in the sweep of its ...

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 ...

Thousands of swans have arrived at an internationally recognized wetland on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.