aquatic bird - wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water

Anatidae, family Anatidae - swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks

coscoroba - large white South American bird intermediate in some respects between ducks and swans

cob - adult male swan

pen - female swan

cygnet - a young swan

Cygnus olor, mute swan - soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated

Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan, whooper - common Old World swan noted for its whooping call

Cygnus columbianus, tundra swan - swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds

Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan, trumpeter - large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry

black swan, Cygnus atratus - large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill

swan's down - down of the swan

hold - assert or affirm; "Rousseau's philosophy holds that people are inherently good"

claim, take - lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

attest - authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity; "I attest this signature"

declare - state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"

declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"

protest - affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence"

assure, tell - inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"

go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"

maunder - wander aimlessly

gad, gallivant, jazz around - wander aimlessly in search of pleasure

drift, err, stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"

wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

sail, sweep - move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"