Cygnets are precocial, meaning they are relatively mature and mobile from birth, although they rely on parental care for guidance and protection. Mute Swans in Culture and Mythology Swans. Image via ...

Young swans, which go by the name of cygnets, are the adorable offspring of swans. From the moment they hatch until their first molt (around 8-10 months of age,) these gentle birds are covered in soft ...

A baby swan, called a cygnet, hitches a ride on its mom’s back in this heartwarming video shared by wildlifeandrescue. Even though baby swans can swim shortly after hatching, they get tired when ...

Mute Swans and their cygnets nesting along the waterfront, particularly the two pairs who had nested at the Turtle Pond along the Bayview Waterfront Trail captivated Belleville residents.

Their bills were long and black and they lacked the yellow teardrop of their tundra swan cousins. Most fields held a few of them and a couple of fields had several hundred.

Swans were everywhere. They were mostly trumpeters, as near as I could see. Their bills were long and black and they lacked the yellow teardrop of their tundra swan cousins.

Another trumpeter swan adventure often begins at the wetland on 227th. At least one family, parents and their grayish cygnets, have wintered over in the wetland for the last few years.

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And now we have at least four documented successful trumpeter nests in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake with several young swans, or cygnets, according to Gabe Foley, coordinator of the Maryland ...

Nearly three decades ago on a chill, still December afternoon, I watched three majestic trumpeter swans touch down in a Chesapeake salt marsh.