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Definition of waxwing in English: waxwingnoun ˈwakswɪŋˈwækswɪŋ A crested Eurasian and American songbird with mainly pinkish-brown plumage, having small tips like red sealing wax to some wing feathers. 朱缘蜡翅鸟 Genus Bombycilla, family Bombycillidae: three species, in particular the (Bohemian) waxwing (B. garrulus) Example sentencesExamples - Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
- In the laboratory, he demonstrated that waxwings maintained body mass and a positive protein balance only when they fed on both Viburnum opulus fruit and the protein-rich catkins.
- Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
- In this respect they have behaved in much the same way as shorelarks, while waxwings also have become much more frequent visitors from Scandinavia in the same period.
- It was a rich source of food for many insects and the berries are eaten by a number of birds, including thrushes, fieldfares and waxwings, which are themselves in decline.
- Did you know that waxwings get drunk on rowan berries, and possess livers twice the size of other comparable birds to deal with these occasional binges?
- On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year.
- Besides contending with occasional fruit shortages, the waxwing must also be wary of an excess of fermented fruit, as alcohol poisoning is a real threat.
- A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said: ‘This year has been excellent for spotting waxwings because the weather conditions have brought many of them to Britain.’
- For a few days a number of cedar waxwings visited the pyracantha along with the robins, and the waxwings were just as voracious in their consumption of the berries as the robins were.
- Seven waxwings were captured at a blueberry farm in southern Georgia in late April 1998 and maintained on a diet of mashed bananas and soy protein.
- Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
- The fruits are red, blue, or black and are quickly consumed in late summer and early fall by finches, game birds, mockingbirds, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers.
- Because he is eager to welcome thrushes and waxwings to his yard, he is adding berries to one area.
- Like waxwings, they are well-known for the unpredictability of their migrations; birds wintering here one year have been recovered in Italy the next.
- Like waxwings, fieldfares are nomadic and show no allegiance to regular wintering areas.
- A flock of 110 waxwings, the biggest recorded in the south, were seen in Blackrock, Co Dublin.
- Recent reports suggest larger than normal numbers of waxwings have headed to the UK this year, but Wiltshire has never been a prime destination.
- The dark salmon-pink and grey plumage of the waxwing is topped off by an impressive crest.
Definition of waxwing in US English: waxwingnounˈwækswɪŋˈwakswiNG A crested Eurasian and American songbird with mainly pinkish-brown plumage, having small tips like red sealing wax to some wing feathers. 朱缘蜡翅鸟 Genus Bombycilla, family Bombycillidae: three species Example sentencesExamples - Like waxwings, they are well-known for the unpredictability of their migrations; birds wintering here one year have been recovered in Italy the next.
- Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
- In this respect they have behaved in much the same way as shorelarks, while waxwings also have become much more frequent visitors from Scandinavia in the same period.
- It was a rich source of food for many insects and the berries are eaten by a number of birds, including thrushes, fieldfares and waxwings, which are themselves in decline.
- Did you know that waxwings get drunk on rowan berries, and possess livers twice the size of other comparable birds to deal with these occasional binges?
- Because he is eager to welcome thrushes and waxwings to his yard, he is adding berries to one area.
- On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year.
- Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
- Recent reports suggest larger than normal numbers of waxwings have headed to the UK this year, but Wiltshire has never been a prime destination.
- Besides contending with occasional fruit shortages, the waxwing must also be wary of an excess of fermented fruit, as alcohol poisoning is a real threat.
- The fruits are red, blue, or black and are quickly consumed in late summer and early fall by finches, game birds, mockingbirds, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers.
- Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
- In the laboratory, he demonstrated that waxwings maintained body mass and a positive protein balance only when they fed on both Viburnum opulus fruit and the protein-rich catkins.
- Seven waxwings were captured at a blueberry farm in southern Georgia in late April 1998 and maintained on a diet of mashed bananas and soy protein.
- The dark salmon-pink and grey plumage of the waxwing is topped off by an impressive crest.
- A flock of 110 waxwings, the biggest recorded in the south, were seen in Blackrock, Co Dublin.
- A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said: ‘This year has been excellent for spotting waxwings because the weather conditions have brought many of them to Britain.’
- Like waxwings, fieldfares are nomadic and show no allegiance to regular wintering areas.
- For a few days a number of cedar waxwings visited the pyracantha along with the robins, and the waxwings were just as voracious in their consumption of the berries as the robins were.
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