Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedorum)

 
                                                                                                  Photos by BarrytheBirder

The Cedar Waxwing is found across lower Canada, throughout the U.S.A. and Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean.

Waxwings have sleek crests, silky plumage and yellow-tipped tails.   The Cedar Waxwing is a small brown bird with a pale yellow belly and white under-tail coverts.

Cedar Waxwings breed from British Columbia to Cape Breton Island in Canada, south to Georgia, Arkansas, and California.   They winter from New England and British Columbia to Panama and the Greater Antilles.

The Audubon Society Field Guide states that Cedar Waxwings are social that "have the amusing habit of passing berries or even apple blossoms from bird to the next down a long row sitting on a branch, until one bird eats the food".

Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America says that Cedar Waxwings "may be present by the hundreds one month, absent the next, as their flocks rove about in search of wild berries.   Their flocks break up into pairs for nesting in midsummer, but otherwise they are almost always in flocks".

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