The male is a cob, the female a pen, & the young a cygnet: which bird are we talking about?
The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis (pronounced "LOO-ee" by the author in the audiobook, a reference to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, a point that is made explicit in the book), a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena. In Canada in the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female
Talking bird suggests that the cawing of crows originated from their being trained by the Picts to say the name of Kar, a female warrior killed fighting the titular monsters. A common hill myna provides important clues about the night of Laura Palmer's death in the television show "Twin Peaks" by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Mercedes Lackey has at least 2 novels with significant roles for a talking Grey: "The Wizard of London," and "Grey's Ghost." Talking bird Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots