Here, whooper swans take flight above a frozen landscape in Japan. The swans take off mostly on water, but can also do so on solid ground, using a short run and beating their massive wings to ...

The birds spent the winter on Japan's main island of Honshu and ... It says about 2,000 tundra swans and whooper swans were confirmed to have arrived as of Tuesday. The swans were seen resting ...

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 ...