Species: Bombycilla cedrorum

Cedar Waxwing
Species

    An 18-cm-long bird with a crest, yellow-tipped tail, silky plumage, and waxy red tips on the secondaries; brown above; pale yellow belly; white undertail coverts; juveniles has dark streaking (NGS 1983).

    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Passeriformes

    Family

    Bombycillidae

    Genus

    Bombycilla

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Ampelis Chinito - jaseur d'Amérique
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Bombycillidae - Bombycilla - Banks and Browning (1995), as first reviser, elected CEDRORUM over AMERICANA for the specific name, and they regarded B. CAROLINENSIS as a nomen oblitum.

    An 18-cm-long bird with a crest, yellow-tipped tail, silky plumage, and waxy red tips on the secondaries; brown above; pale yellow belly; white undertail coverts; juveniles has dark streaking (NGS 1983).

    Migration
    true - true - true - Migration is not usually a regular north-south movement (Terres 1980). Arrives in Costa Rica (where sporadic in winter) in December, departs by end of April or in some years mid-May (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
    Non-migrant
    true
    Locally Migrant
    true
    Food Comments
    Feeds opportunistically on small fruits, in spring and summer also various insects. May consume maple tree sap and flower petals. Apparantly cannot maintain positive energy balance whenn feeding solely on high-sucrose fruits (Avery et al. 1995, Auk 112:436-444).
    Reproduction Comments
    Breeding season variable. Female incubates 3-5, sometimes 6, eggs for 12-16 days. Young are tended by both adults, leave nest at 14-18 days. Sometimes nests in small colonies of up to 12 pairs.
    Ecology Comments
    Usually travels in small groups or flocks; winter flocks may number in thousands.
    Length
    18
    Weight
    33
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-12-03
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-12-03
    Other Status

    LC - Least concern

    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: southeastern Alaska east to Newfoundland and south to northern California, northern Utah, western Oklahoma, southern Illinois, northern Alabama, northern Georgia, and northwestern South Carolina. WINTERS: locally from southern Canada and the northern U.S. south to central Panama, irregularly to the Bahamas and Greater Antilles, casually to northern South America.
    Global Range Code
    H
    Global Range Description
    >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)
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