cedar waxwing

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A North American bird (Bombycilla cedrorum) having a crested head, a yellow-tipped tail, and waxy red tips on the secondary wing feathers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) a species of chatterer (Bombycilla cedrorum, formerly Ampelis cedrorum) widely distributed over temperate North America, so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cedar bird, cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing. It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long, between the size of a robin and a sparrow, has a crest on the head, a black face mask, and a yellow-tipped tail. The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings, like that of a black sealing wax. They sometimes are seen in flocks.

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• noun widely distributed over temperate North America