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This is a group of passerinebirds characterised by soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and give the group its name.
These are arboreal birds of northern forests. They live on insects in summer and berries in winter.
They are not true long_distance migrants, but wander erratically outside the breeding season and move south from their summer range in winter. In poor berry years huge numbers can erupt well beyond their normal range.
Some authorities (including the Sibley-Monroe checklist) place the silky-flycatchers, and the Hypocolius, in family Bombycillidae along with the waxwings.
Any of several fruit-eating birds of the family Bombycillidae, order Passeriformes.
The Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus of North America and Eurasia is about 18 cm/7 in long, and is greyish-brown above with a reddish-chestnut crest, fl streak at the eye, and variegated wings.
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The taxonomic relationships of the Bombycillidae remain controversial.
Sibley and Monroe (1990) placed the family in close proximity to thrushes and Old World flycatchers, and listed three "tribes" of the Bombycillidae: the waxwings (Bombycillini), the Palmchat (Dulini), and the silky-flycatchers (Ptilogonatini).
A.O.U. Check-list (1998), while acknowledging this suggestion, placed them closer to pipits and starlings in a more traditional position, and considered all the "tribes" to be worthy of family status.
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