Species profile
Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum
Quick answer
Silky brown with a black mask and waxy red wingtips; travels in berry-hunting flocks.
- Scientific name
- Bombycilla cedrorum
- Family
- Bombycillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Bombycilla
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Habitat
Fruiting trees, open woods
Recording Cedar Waxwing in your journal
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