Cedar Waxwing with Berry
by Nikolyn McDonald
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Cedar Waxwing with Berry
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Nikolyn McDonald
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This saucy, medium-sized songbird loves fruits and berries. It has just plucked a juniper (Juniperus) berry, from a backyard tree and soon - faster than you can say "cedar waxwing" - will have swallowed it. Junipers are in the cypress family (Cupressaceae); the "berries" are actually female seed cones and have fleshy, merged scales which make them look like berries.
The bird (Bombycilla cedrorum), also called a southern waxwing, canada robin, or cedar bird, is a migratory passerine. Highly sociable, it moves and feeds in flocks; together they can strip a tree of its fruit in a day or two. I took this photo in very late March in eastern Nebraska as the birds were on their way north to their breeding grounds in Canada.
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March 30th, 2023
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