Cedar Waxwing

Description: 6 1/2-8" Smaller than a robin, a sleek, crested, brown bird with black mask, yellow tips on tail feathers, and hard wax-like tips on secondary wing feathers, almost always seen in flocks	Habitat: Open woodlands, clearings, towns, parks. Often seen near cedar and mountain ash trees. Very gregarious in the winter and during migration. Will feed together in trees in tight packed bunches.
Nesting: 4-6 blue-gray eggs spotted with dark brown and black, in a bulky cup of twigs and grass placed in a tree in the open	Range: breeds from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south from Illinois to Virginia, winters from British Columbia and Great Lakes area southward
Voice: a thin lisp tseee	Diet: insects,berries, flowers, tree sap; about 70 % fruit on average over the year. Young fed insects first, but berries added within a few days. Like Bohemian Waxwing, has reputation for gluttony.

Notes: Occasionally get drunk from eating overripe fruit!, moves about in feeding flocks, especially in winter, berries often passed from bird to bird, very tame.

When present in Oklahoma: winter resident statewide, scarce in summer months