The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SWAN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SWAN
- Bird ringing expedition finished amid flapping wingspan
- Country lover avoids one bird
- Young lover, one relieved to find Leda's assailant
- Flier succeeded with wangle — not half!
- E.g. pen's tip of steel lacking in colour
- What some call Shakespeare's pen, maybe
- Main role in ballet is lover I neglected
- Small pale bird
- Small, pale bird
- Trumpeter maybe showing off when king’s gone
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What does SWAN mean?
SWAN noun- Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
- One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
- To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).