Cedar Waxwing
The cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It is a medium-sized, mostly brown, gray, and yellow. This bird is named for its wax-like wing tips. It is a native of North and Central America, breeding in open wooded areas in southern Canada and wintering in the southern half of the United States, Central America, and the far northwest of South America. Its diet includes cedar cones, fruit, and insects. The cedar waxwing is listed as least…
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
By hour of day
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Elsewhere
Recordings
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