Cedar Waxwing

A light brown, crested bird with small, red, waxy tips to some of the wing feathers. Length: 16 cm.; weight: 33-35 g. Audio (M. Oberle). Breeds in the northern USA and southern Canada; winters in the southern USA, south through Central America. Accidental in coastal areas, urban gardens, dry forests and wetlands in Puerto Rico (e.g., Culebra, February 1999).

TAXONOMY: PASSERIFORMES; BOMBYCILLIDAE

References

Arendt, W.J. 1992. Status of North American migrant landbirds in the Caribbean region: a summary. Pp. 143-171 in Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds (J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds.) Smithsonian Instit. Press, Washington, D.C.

Bent, A.C. 1950. Life histories of North American wagtails, shrikes, vireos, and their allies. Smithsonian Instit. U.S. National Museum Bull. 197. (Reprinted by Dover Press, NY, 1965).

Ehrlich, P.R., D.S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birderÆs handbook: a field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon and Schuster/ Fireside, NY.

Elliot, L., W.C. Witmer, and D.J. Mountjoy. 1998. Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) No. 309 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, PA, and Am. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C.

Levey, D. J. and C. Martφnez del Rio. 2001. It takes guts (and more) to eat fruit: lessons from avian nutritional ecology. Auk. 118(4): 819-831.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

Witmer, M.C., D.J. Mountjoy, and L. Elliot. 1997. Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) No. 309 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, PA, and Am. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C.

Cedar Waxwing, Spanish text

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