They are strong and speedy swimmers that take to the air with a running start, clattering across the water's surface with wings beating. In flight, the rhythmic flapping of the swan's wings ...

Swans on their autumnal migratory flight—the celestial flutter of wings, the silver arrow of a flock splitting the sky—evoke poetic melancholy. Shadows lengthen. Days shorten. Another year ...

TWO swans smashed into a packed holiday jet seconds after take-off — puncturing the fuselage and forcing an emergency landing ...

The White Swan has been employed in some of the longest flights ever conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces.