Cedar waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum
Identification Tips:
- Length: 5.75 inches
- Short, thin bill
- Pale brown crest
- Black eye patch and chin
- Pale brown head fading into pale yellow belly
- White undertail coverts
- Dark brown back
- Dark wings with thin, red bar
- Black tail with yellow tip
- Juveniles have much duller, grayer head and body with blurry streaks on
underparts
- Frequently found in large flocks feeding on fruit
Similar species:
The Bohemian Waxwing is similar to the Cedar Waxwing but has dark undertail
coverts, gray belly and white and yellow markings in the wing.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.