Female swan Crossword Clue (2024)

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A male swan is called a Cob. The female is called a Pen and the young of the year are called cygnets (pronounced 'sig-nets').

A male swan is called a Cob. The female is called a Pen and the young of the year are called cygnets (pronounced 'sig-nets').

Answer and Explanation:

A female swan is also known as a pen, while a male swan is known as a cob.

A female swan is called a Pen and the young ones of the swan are called cygnets or flappers.

We identified 3 potential answers for this clue. We believe the most likely solution is COB with 3 letters.

Did you know? A female swan is known as a 'pen' and a male is a 'cob'. Both males and females are involved in parenting; the cob will guard the nest while the pen leaves to feed, but will not incubate the eggs.

The male is known as a cob and the female as a pen. They appear identical but the male is larger, with a slightly longer head and body and wider wingspan. The black knob at the base of the male's bill swells during the breeding season and becomes noticeably larger than the females.

Young swans are known as cygnets, or, less commonly, as swanlings. The former derives from Old French cigne or cisne (diminutive suffix et 'little'), from the Latin word cygnus, a variant form of cycnus 'swan', itself from the Greek κύκνος kýknos, a word of the same meaning.

A female bird is commonly known as a ''hen'' or ''female''. The particular phrase used varies depending on the bird's species including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and more.. A female chicken is called a hen, a female duck is called a duck, and a female eagle is called an eagle.

What is the name of a female mute swan? ›

Male (cob) and female (pen) mute swans are essentially identical in appearance, except that the male is usually larger and has a more prominent knob on the forehead. Young swans, called cygnets, are usually white, but gray-colored cygnets are not uncommon.

There are several versions of the story, but a common telling of the tale is that in the 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I wished to corral some swans and was told that they had owners who did not want to give them up. The Queen took the matter to court, which ruled that she had a right to any wild swan on open waters.

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a juvenile swan, known as a cygnet (pronounced "sig-net"), of Trumpeter and Tundra Swans.

Male swans (known as cobs) and female swans (known as pens) both help in raising the young.

The Whooper Swan is a large white swan, bigger than a Bewick's Swan. It has a long neck, which it usually holds erect, and black legs. Its black bill has a large triangular patch of yellow on it.

Anatidae. The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups.

Swans usually mate for life, although "divorce" sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight.

The black swans could mate with white swans as a hybrid has been successfully bred in captivity and is called a blute swan. These birds would be an extraordinary site but may not be the best outcome for the swan population.

The male swan is called the Cob. He typically weighs more and looks slightly larger than the female (the Pen), although it is often difficult to tell the male and female apart.