Cedar Waxwing

Part of a flock feeding on sugarberry tree (hackberry) fruits. Up north, where they breed, these birds are scattered about on breeding territories where they eat mostly insects (behaving like flycatchers), but down here in the winter time, they fly around in flocks eating the fruit of hollies (Ilex), hackberry (Celtis), greenbriar (Smilax), cabbage palm (Sabal), privet (Ligustrum), camphor tree (Cinnamomum), redcedar (Juniperus), tupelo (Nyssa), mistletoe (Phoradendron), etc.. They stay here into early spring, eating new fruit such as red mulberry (Morus) and blueberry (Vaccinium), and are shot in large numbers when they raid blueberry farms.

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