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 ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Most birders are not fond of mute swans. They are non-native, and like many introduced species, they compete with native species. Some of that competition is a threat, or potential ...

Birds flying inspire awe — but how much do you know about flight? Learn which bird flies highest, which flying bird is ...

All around the house, blackbirds sing at the crack of dawn, the flock waxing and waning in size, gathering new members and losing others as they flit, flirt, pair off and wander away to find their own ...

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, ...