Passeriformes

Waxwings (Bombycillidae)

HBW 10, p. 304 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 10 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-sized songbirds with soft dense plumage, short broad bill, pronounced crest, black mask and coloured band on tail.
• Holarctic, ranging south into northern Neotropical.
• Deciduous and coniferous forests, mainly in broken or edge habitats.
• 1 genus, 3 species, 6 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.