waxwing

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• Or watch cedar waxwings, by the scores, enjoy a Thanksgiving feast of bright red coralberries.
• The name waxwing is due to the scarlet ornaments at the tips of the lesser flight feathers and some of the tail feathers, which resemble bits of red sealing wax, but which are really the bare, flattened ends of the feather shafts. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
• Recent reports suggest larger than normal numbers of waxwings have headed to the UK this year, but Wiltshire has never been a prime destination.
• Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
• Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
• A rainbow of darts shoots through the limbs - a capeful of purple finch, three blue-gray gnatcatchers, a pair of cedar waxwings, and countless ruby-crowned kinglets.
• A flock of 110 waxwings, the biggest recorded in the south, were seen in Blackrock, Co Dublin.
• Because he is eager to welcome thrushes and waxwings to his yard, he is adding berries to one area.
• Waxwings are social birds and where suitable food supplies are found, flocks of several hundred birds have been recorded here.
• In the laboratory, he demonstrated that waxwings maintained body mass and a positive protein balance only when they fed on both Viburnum opulus fruit and the protein-rich catkins.