Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
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Length: 6.25 inches
Short, thin bill
Pale brown crest
Black eye patch and chin
Brown forehead
Pale brown head fading into pale gray belly
Brown undertail coverts
Dark gray back ...
Bohemian Waxwing
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Bohemian Waxwing
Adult
Similar Species
Cedar Waxwing is slightly smaller, lacks reddish under tail and white and yellow stripes on closed wing, and has a yellowish belly.
Song: Bohemian Waxwing Song.
Migration: Summers in northwestern Canada and Alaska. Difficult to predict winter movements, with heavy irruptions well into the interior of the United States in some winters.
Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
Now, if it is winter and you see some waxwings that you can't figure out there are two basic differences to consider: size and plumage.
Even allowing for increased numbers of bird observers, it appears that Bohemian Waxwings have become more regular; since 1958 they have been recorded almost every winter, their numbers varying from a few to many.
Bohemian Waxwing
Both Sexes
Pink-beige body, crest, white markings on wings and yellow tail tip.
Bombycilla garrulus ...
Picture Bohemian Waxwing
Waxwings belong to the order Passeriformes.
Types of Waxwings include: ...
Bohemian Waxwing, B. garrulus
Japanese Waxwing, B. japonica
Cedar Waxwing, B. cedrorum
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Bombycilla garrulus - Bohemian Waxwing (photo)
Bombycilla cedrorum - Cedar Waxwing (in Birds of NWO)
Cinclidae - Dippers
Cinclus
Cinclus cinclus - Eurasian Dipper (photo)
Cinclus mexicanus - American Dipper ...
Elias which travels through spruce muskeg I had : Bohemian Waxwing, Which-crowned Sparrow, Lesser Yellowleg, Olive-sided Flycatcher, White-winged Crossbills, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush.
The species most similar to the Cedar Waxwing is the Bohemian Waxwing. The Bohemian Waxwing is larger, with distinctive white wing bars and yellow tips on its flight feathers.
BLACK-THROATED WAXWING, OR BOHEMIAN CHATTERER.
[Bohemian Waxwing.]
BOMBYCILLA GARRULA, Vieill.
[Bombycilla garrulus.] ...
The cardinal is one of five crested songbirds in Minnesota; others are the blue jay, tufted titmouse, cedar waxwing and Bohemian waxwing.
Identification
General description: The Northern Cardinal is a mid-sized songbird.
Includes berries, flowers, tree sap; ca. 70% fruit avg over the year. Young fed insects first, but berries added within a few days. Like Bohemian Waxwing, has reputation for gluttony.
CONSERVATION: ...
Starling Strut: Starlings walk rather than hop. Their flight is quite strong and direct; they look triangular-winged
and short-tailed in flight. In most
of Europe, only the rarer and much paler Bohemian Waxwing shares
this flight profile.
 See also: Waxwing, Cedar Waxwing, Warbler, Mouse, Tufted Titmouse
  
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