Cygnets

Young swans are called cygnets, and are at first quite grey or light brown; they do not become perfectly white until the beginning of the third year. ❋ Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley (1858)

MacNeil said someone spotted the male swan swimming with three offspring, called cygnets, but did not see the female. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It comes with swans Caesar and Cleopatra and their four newly hatched cygnets, as well as five peacocks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Soon all sorts of animals made their presence known: otters, raccoons, swans with a train of little cygnets behind them. ❋ Joseph Pierce Farrell (2011)

The couple in the southern end of the lake, raising four brown cygnets, are trying to drive out the other family, which has one cygnet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The swans floated blithely away, toward the middle of the lake, followed by the four surviving cygnets. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

The other adult was paying close attention, while the cygnets floated nearby. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

Last week we'd seen a family of swans there, the upright, imperial parents and their five little cygnets. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

On the banks of the now narrow river were two family parties of whooper swans, one with five well-grown grey/brown cygnets and the other with two cygnets. ❋ Ray Collier (2010)

Swans are very, very territorial and will drive off other waterfowl, especially when cygnets are involved! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The house comes with swans Caesar and Cleopatra and their four newly hatched cygnets, as well as five peacocks. ❋ Sarah Tilton (2011)

The cygnets, played by men in drag, are fairly inane the Trocks do it much better. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Each year a pair of swans nest on a small island, usually with six or seven cygnets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Looking out at the lake, I noted how odd it was, all this violence going on beneath such a clear blue sky, the trees rustling gently in the breeze, the other water birds—the geese, the ducks, even the remaining cygnets—calmly floating on the lake's surface. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

The family of swans floated about fifty feet out, the parents side by side, the cygnets close by. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

The Gowans sat in companionable silence together watching as a flotilla of swans glided past, parents and their half-grown cygnets from the previous spring. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

A pair of swans and their cygnets, almost fully grown, swam nearby on the ribbon of bright water that separated the inn from Eel Pie Island. ❋ Linda Buckley-Archer (2009)