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Waxwings are a unique group of birds. They are in the large order Passeriformes with all of our “perching birds” and what we ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Birdwatchers walking along the High Line Canal during an annual bird count last Christmas got a surprise gift when one of them spotted a Bohemian waxwing ...

One of the happenings of a mild winter is that fewer birds are visiting the bird feeders. The feathered neighbors really do not need our handouts when the temperatures get above normal, and we have ...

Walking along a dirt road last winter, I heard a collection of pleasant, sputtering trills coming from a stand of conifers and hardwoods nearby. I’m used to the winter conversation of chickadees ...

A little band of cedar waxwings, true to their name, settled into a cedar tree at my place west of Gilby, N.D., on Friday afternoon. The birds gorged themselves on cedar berries. They also prompted a ...

Bohemian waxwings circled and swirled near downtown Palmer this week in flocks of hundreds. The mostly gray, fine-feathered birds have a smooth, velvety appearance and give a splash of color to winter ...

The waxwings are another pair -- like the shrikes discussed last week or the redpolls that are so abundant here this winter. Waxwings, too, have been conspicuous. And, too, they present an ...

When I stepped outside on my way to work the day before Thanksgiving, I became suddenly aware that winter was here. It was neither a bone-chilling wind nor drifts of snow that had alerted me to winter ...