Cedar waxwings

• Highly social cedar waxwings travel in flocks of two dozen or more birds and pass berries to one another when feeding.

• Their diet consists primarily of sugary fruits, but they will also eat insects.

• They occupy forests, farms, urban and suburban neighborhoods, and are major dispensers of seeds for fruit-bearing plants.

• They utter high-pitched “screeee” vocalizations or trills sounding like the rattling of BBs.

• They’re nearly identical to bohemian waxwings breeding in Alaska and Northwest Territories and wandering to the Rockies in winter but rarely to Texas.