Species: Bombycilla garrulus
Bohemian Waxwing
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Bombycillidae
Genus
Bombycilla
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
jaseur boréal
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Bombycillidae - Bombycilla
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A bird (waxwing).
Migration
false - true - true - Withdraws southward from northern half of breeding range in winter. Wanders irregularly east and south in fall and winter when berry supply is low.
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
true
Food Comments
Feeds on insects and some berries during the summer. At other times of the year feeds mostly on fruits and berries (e.g., mountain ash fruits, cedar and juniper berries). Flies out from a perch and catches insects in the air.
Reproduction Comments
Female incubates 4-6 eggs for ca. 14 days. Nestlings altricial. Young tended by both adults, leave the nest about 13-15 days after hatching (Terres 1980).
Ecology Comments
Sometimes travels in cedar waxwing flocks.
Length
21
Weight
56
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-03
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
BREEDING: in North America from western and northern Alaska east to Mackenzie Delta and south through Canada to central Washingon, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana. In Eurasia from northern Scandinavia east across northern Russia to northern Siberia. NON-BREEDING: in North America from southeastern Alaska south through Canada, western U.S., wandering to southern California, northern Texas, New Jersey, and Newfoundland. In Eurasia from breeding range south to British Isles, central and southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, Iran, Turkestan, Mongolia, Manchuria, Ussuriland, Korea, Japan, and the Kurile Islands (AOU 1983).

