what do they call a female swan?

Answer 1

An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen (origin unknown).

Answer 2

Female Swan

Answer 3

The mute swan is the largest Irish bird. She has glistening white feathers and a graceful neck and she is beautiful and has black legs and feet. The mute swan is so called because she is unable to sing sweetly. She hates lake dwellers and makes a hissing noise. She eats water weeds, water beetles and tadpoles. The mute swan weighs about 12 kg and is a powerful flyer. The female mute swan is called a pen and lays four to seven greenish white eggs. The male mute swan is called a cob he guards the female from rats and otters While she is keeping her eggs warm. The baby mute swans are called cygnets. It takes Nearly six for the eggs to hatch. It is believed that mute swans were introduced into Britain and Ireland from cyprus by Richard the first at the close of the twelfth century. The mute swan is supposed to honk loudly just before it dies. The Irish for mute swan is Eala Bhalbh. Its length is 152cm. The male is a little bigger than the female. Mute swans Have orange bills and a black knob. It is said that 5000 mute swans live in Ireland. The Mute swan is the heaviest bird that can fly. The trumpeter swan is the largest of all the species. Its plumage is white and it has a black bill.

Answer 4

I believe a female swan is called a Pen.

Answer 5

the female swan is called a pen and also they have a smaller boggle on they beck
the male swan is called a cob and they have bigger boggle on they beck
how do tell the age of a swan is by the beck
the lighter the berk the young the bird
and the darker the Berk the older they are

march time is when they start mating
and they hatch the eggs in June to August
they could have up to 8 to11 eggs
50o/o of the cygnets live or die in accident in the first year of life
also the swan are protect by law also they have red ring and sivler rings
i rescue swans
berwick swan center
berwick

hope this help you
pam

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what do they call a female swan?

Answer 7

its a pen,
formally known as a female swan.

Answer 8

A swan is a swan. The young are called Cygnets but the male and female are just that, male swan and female swan.

Answer 9

a female swan is called a bic, lol no its called a "pen"

Answer 10

Pen. Or if you want to be formal Penelope!

Only joking: female is pen, male is cob and those adorable babies are cygnets!