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The waxwings are a group of passerine birds 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. bohemian waxwing This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
Binomial name Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...
Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with...
Orders Many - see section below. ...
Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ...
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748 - 1831) was a French ornithologist. ...
Binomial name Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. ...
Binomial name Bombycilla cedrorum (Vieillot, 1808) The Cedar Waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum, is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. ...
Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ...
Orders Many - see section below. ...
Binomial name Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. ...
Binomial name Bombycilla cedrorum (Vieillot, 1808) The Cedar Waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum, is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. ...
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. // Long-distance land bird migration Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere. ...
Some authorities (including the Sibley-Monroe checklist) place the silky-flycatchers, and the Hypocolius, in family Bombycillidae along with the waxwings. The waxwing is also thematicaly prominent in the novel Pale Fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, which begins thus: The Sibley-Monroe checklist was a landmark document in the study of birds. ...
Genus Phainoptila Ptilogonys Phainopepla The silky-flycatchers are a small family of passerine birds which occur mainly in Central America, although the range of one species, the Phainopepla, extends into the southwestern USA. They are related to waxwings, and like that group have a soft silky plumage, usually grey or...
Binomial name Hypocolius ampelinus Bonaparte, 1850 The Grey Hypocolius (Hypocolius ampelinus; alternative name Hypocolius) is a small passerine bird species. ...
Penguin Classics edition of Pale Fire Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth in total and fifth in English. ...
This page is about the novelist. ...
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
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