The whooper swan, like its onomatopoeic cousins, the whistling and the trumpeter, belongs to an elegant society of sisters; the mute, Bewick's, black ... to loss of habitat, is among the most ...

A mute swan typically has only one mate in its lifetime ... Tell it apart from native tundra and trumpeter swans by its orange bill with a black knob. Mute swans have a big appetite—one study ...

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 ...

The black swan habitat Djirda Miya, completed in 2021 with local and state funding, has only had a few cygnets survive each year since, according to community group Wildlife Advocacy South Perth.