32 x 24.5 cm. (12.6 x 9.6 in.) The depicted swan is a Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus), which is characterized, among other things, by its yellow beak (the Mute Swan has a red beak). In the early 1900s, ...

This mute swan coming in for a landing is not actually mute, but this species is much quieter than other swans — except when they’re flying. Researchers and swan enthusiasts enjoy the very audible, ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. — The swans that inhabit Grace Graham’s poetry are white as fresh linen. They glide across Phantom Lake like elegant apparitions, paddling webbed feet into stanzas she writes before ...