Pale as moonlight, whoopers settle down for the night on a frozen stretch of Hokkaido’s Notsuke Bay. “These birds aren’t shy,” says the photographer. Fed by humans, in some places they’re a tourist draw. “Good for tourism, not the swans,” a Japanese biologist says. Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner
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Pale as moonlight, whoopers settle down for the night on a frozen stretch of Hokkaido’s Notsuke Bay. “These birds aren’t shy,” says the photographer. Fed by humans, in some places they’re a tourist draw. “Good for tourism, not the swans,” a Japanese biologist says.

Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner

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