A lone Bohemian waxwing, traveling with a flock of cedar waxwings in Knoxville’s Sequoyah Hills Park on Nov. 22, was the first ever documented in Tennessee. It’s pretty amazing that someone would even ...

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Last week's bird, the house sparrow, is the image of domesticity. Even its name suggests a place bound creature. This week's bird is a wanderer, as its name implies. What do the house sparrow and the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

BUTTE - There are only three species of waxwings in the family Bombycillidae in the world with two species in Montana and North America. The two North American species are the cedar and the Bohemian.

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 ...