#1270 · 🐦 birds
Cedar Waxwing
🇳🇱 Cederpestvogel ·Bombycilla cedrorum
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what is it?
The cedar waxwing ( Bombycilla cedrorum ) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It is a medium-sized, mostly brown, gray, and yellow. This bird is named for its wax-like wing tips. It is a native of North and Central America, breeding in open wooded areas in southern Canada and wintering in the southern half of the United States, Central America, and the far northwest of South America. Its diet includes cedar...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 125,568 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1808 (218 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Cedar Waxwing
- Nederlands
- Cederpestvogel
- scientific name
- Bombycilla cedrorum
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Bombycillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 125,568
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1808 by Louis Pierre Vieillot
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Bombycillidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7428, Wikidata Q184314, GBIF 2484609, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.