Birds and wildlife
Waxwing
Bombycilla garrulusGroup: waxwingsUK Conservation status:GreenWaxwing
How to identify
The Waxwing is a plump bird, which is slightly smaller than a Starling. It has a prominent crest. It is reddish-brown with a black throat, a small black mask round its eye, yellow and white in the wings and a yellow-tipped tail. It does not breed in the UK, but is a winter visitor. In some years, we see larger numbers of visiting Waxwings, called irruptions, when the population in their breeding grounds gets too big for the food available.Call
Waxwing
Patrik Åberg / xeno-canto
Key
- Resident
- Passage
- Summer
- Winter
- Jan
- Feb
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