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 ...

All but two of 32 cygnets hatched at a black swan refuge in South Perth that cost nearly $2 million to build – but is the subject of no official ongoing monitoring – have died, according to residents ...

One of the most popular rumours about the swan has a grain of truth in it. Swan expert Kevin Wood suggests there has been just one documented case of a swan breaking a person’s arm: a hunter in ...

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 ...