waxwings in English
noun
1
a crested Eurasian and American songbird with mainly pinkish-brown plumage, having small tips like red sealing wax on some wing feathers.
Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings , woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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1. Waxwings, Starlings, Chickadees, and Titmice (Bombycillidae, Sturnidae et Paridae)
2. Cedar waxwings, beautiful, well- mannered, very sociable, banqueting together in a large bush loaded with ripe berries.
3. In early 2001 an unprecedented flock of 500 waxwings spent four winter months devouring cotoneaster berries in Belfast's city parks and housing estates.