waxing
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On its website, the British Trust for Ornithology said "waxwings come to the UK in search of berries when crops run low closer to their breeding grounds in Fennoscandia and western Russia".
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
He says cedar waxwings have a “1980s glam-rock look with eyeliner and spiked hair.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
“Cedar waxwings are like thoughts that arise unbidden in meditation,” Strassmann writes.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022
For beginning birders, fewer species in winter and the tendency of some to flock together, like cedar waxwings and red crossbills, make it easier to spot and remember them.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022
But the cedar waxwings didn’t just descend on the tree willy-nilly.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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