Mother Swan

The Mother Swan is a minor character from Disney's 75th and final Silly Symphonies short film, The Ugly Duckling. Appearing toward the film's end, she and her cygnets are passing by when the lonely sobs of the Ugly Duckling catches her attention. After her children convince him to play with them, she invites the Ugly Duckling to join them but his fear of being rejected again make him hesitant to approach her until she embraces him to proove she doesn't consider him ugly at all. As the film ends, she is last seen leading him and her other cygnets home. It was never specified in the film if she was his real mother who somehow lost the egg or an adoptive mother.