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Waxwing
Waxwing Wax"wing`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

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- species: the Bohemian waxwing (B. garrulus), the ****anese waxwing (B. ****onica) and the cedar waxwing (B. cedrorum). Waxwings are not long-distance migrants...
- numbers of Bohemian waxwings irrupt well beyond their normal winter range in search of the fruit that makes up most of their diet. Waxwings can be very tame...
- cedar waxwing sightings in Great Britain. Individual Bohemian waxwings will occasionally join large winter flocks of cedar waxwings. Cedar waxwings are...
- other species of waxwing, it lacks the row of waxy red feather-tips on the wing which gives the birds their name. ****anese waxwings often occur in mixed...
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- waxwing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The waxwings are p****erine birds classified in the genus Bombycilla. Waxwing may also refer to: Waxwing (band)...
- Fire", have become Nabokov's most quoted couplet: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the window pane Like many of Nabokov's fictions...
- USS Waxwing (AM-389) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in...
- Waxwings 2003 is the second novel by Jonathan Raban Raban muses over the idea for a Seattle-based novel near the end of his American road trip in Hunting...