One of Australia’s best-loved birds is also an important symbol in modern culture, having lent its name to a famous book, The Black Swan by scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which was in 2007 ranked by ...

The discovery in 1697 of the Australian Black Swan turned all that ... and the history of art is littered with pictures of ravishingly beautiful birds; even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci ...

On stage, Nina gives stirring performances as both the white swan and the evil seductress black swan ... is convinced that she is turning into a bird, then she probably has a psychotic disorder ...

the existence of other birds that have different coloured feathers but are the same species. In other words, a black swan event cannot be predicted but may seem obvious in hindsight. Black swan ...

And in a way he is, for Black Swan is a bona fide phenomenon, an art-house indie on its way toward $100 million at the box office, and unquestionably the love-it-or-hate-it movie of the year ...

A black swan ... A study of bird populations in 2012 found there were just 37 confirmed nesting pairs in the UK. Residents told the BBC the swan had been seen regularly over the last week.