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Cedar Waxwing

Bombycilla cedrorum · Family Bombycillidae

Bombycilla cedrorum

Family Bombycillidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Bombycillidae
GBIF occurrence records
7,260,220
Countries and territories with records
32
Cedar Waxwing
Jason Quinn · Cedar Waxwing August 14 2012 Newfoundland PA.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jason Quinn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Bombycilla_cedrorum_-_Cedar_Waxwing_XC131645.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 7,260,220 occurrence records from 32 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (81%) and Canada (18.7%); together they account for 99.6% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.53% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Bombycilla cedrorum combines the genus name Bombycilla with the species epithet cedrorum. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Bombycilla; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Bombycilla garrulus and Bombycilla japonica.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 3 species of the family Bombycillidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 2.6 times the family average (2,811,344). The family Bombycillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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