It’s thought to derive from the sound a Whooper ... swans goes back centuries. Even today the Queen has the right to claim any unmarked mute swan swimming in open water. And in the UK only ...

As the cold spells persist, an increasing number of whooper swans ... is along a central migration passage for birds from Siberia, Russia. Each year, over 10,000 swans winter in the province ...

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 ...

The bumber number made up about 13 per cent of the total population of whooper swans spending the winter in the UK. John Badley, senior site manager, said: “It was a cold morning on the reserve ...

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 ...

The High Court has quashed a decision to refuse planning permission for a windfarm in Co Cork in order to protect the habitat of the whooper swan. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys directed that the ...