Cedar waxwings are sleek, masked birds with unusual red, waxy deposits at the tips of their secondary feathers. They are cinnamon-colored, with grayish wings and tails and yellow terminal tail-bands.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Instagram An Instagram image is highlighting just how group-oriented Cedar Waxwings can be. The birds are often ...

It's official. Cedar waxwing is the 2020 Bird of the Year, declared by the American Birding Association on Jan. 12. I attended the ABA's Sunday afternoon "reveal party," at a nightclub in Berwyn that ...

My neighbors have some kind of ornamental berry bush along the walkway in front of their house. While out walking the dog one cold, not-snowy, morning last week a large flock of cedar waxwings ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- This week's bird will be the Cedar Waxwing. A treat to find in your binocular viewfield, the Cedar Waxwing is a silky, shiny collection of brown, gray, and lemon-yellow, ...

Despite their dandy silken colors, I'd have to call cedar waxwings the “poop birds.” One New Year's Day years back, we were entertaining a friend visiting from Manhattan. We took her to the River Walk ...

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The cedar waxwing is easily found in open habitat where there are berries. It times its nesting to coincide with summer berry production, putting it among the latest of North American birds to nest.

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Reader Ann Wheeler sent me a photo of a songbird. It looked like carved mahogany, but the poor creature was fatally broken from colliding with her windowpane. Wheeler wanted to identify the bird, ...