The Santa Fe County

CERRILLOS HILLS HISTORIC PARK

Waxwings

Cedar Waxwing - occasional presence

Bombycilla cedrorum

Size: 7" - Waxwing

Soft brown; belly yellow; eye mask black; edged white; tail gray, yellow band at tip; secondaries red tipped. Flies in tight flocks. Berry eater.

IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS

Sighted at the Leonora Curtin Natural History Area (a lush, well-watered preserve 3 miles north of Cerro Bonanza, near La Ciénega)

Cedar Waxwing - TRANSIENT & WINTER

Sighted at the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group -- 7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)

Cedar Waxwing - as of '04

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