Despite their dandy silken colors, I'd have to call cedar waxwings the “poop birds.” One New Year's Day years back, we were entertaining a friend visiting from Manhattan. We took her to the River Walk ...

The beautiful cedar waxwing — the 2020 American Birding Association Bird of the Year — brings many benefits to your garden, including insect control. You may already be familiar with the cedar waxwing ...

Cedar waxwings look as though they never have a feather out of place, and the adults appear to be watercolor-washed with gray, warm shades of brown and the softest yellow on the belly. Social by ...

Avid birder Bob Pogue starts watching for cedar waxwings around Thanksgiving. For the past 10 years, these unusual masked birds have flocked to feast on the ripening fruit of the persimmon tree near ...

Capistrano may have the return of the swallows, but the Turners Falls village of Montague has the return of birds that are undoubtedly among the most beautiful on the planet – cedar waxwings. In the ...

Cedar waxwings are one of the most beautiful birds we have in Wisconsin, and they are nesting right now. With their striking black mask, yellow tail tip and red droplets on their wings, these birds ...

The August doldrums are upon us. Nests are empty, flowers are going to seed and insects buzz. But then, zucchinis run rampant; tomatoes are finally turning red and sweet corn overflows the road stands ...

With less than two weeks before Christmas, many of our region’s birds migrated to their warm wintering grounds long ago. But the cedar waxwing is making merry in the Inland Northwest, its palette of ...

Flocks of cedar waxwings descending en masse on berry-bearing bushes might be considered a plague, if the birds weren’t so incredibly beautiful. I’ll never forget my first experience with these ...

My wife and I had just finished breakfast the other morning when we heard the bead-rattling call of cedar waxwings. Hundreds of the birds had descended upon the yaupon bushes around our home, gulping ...