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Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum
Aves
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
7-8 yrs
Size
Small
Diet
Omnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Flock
Biome
Temperate woodland
Range
North America
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Common

About

This sleek brown bird lives in the open woodlands of North and Central America. It often becomes intoxicated after eating fermented berries that cause it to stumble.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
  2. 2.
    hatchling
    A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Bombycillidae
Genus
Bombycilla
Species
Bombycilla cedrorum