Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Bohemian Waxwing
Bombycilla garrulus
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Wanders the boreal forest in nomadic berry-drunk flocks. Shows up in your town one winter and never again.
- Populasi
- 8.4-11 million mature individuals globally (slowly declining trend; ~2.5 million in North America, 1.3-2.5 million in Europe)
- Habitat
- Open boreal coniferous and mixed forest, forest edges, and muskeg for breeding (high forest dependency, often well-drained areas near rivers with fruiting shrubs); in winter, ranges widely through woodlands, parks, gardens, farmland, and shrubby/urban areas with fruiting trees (e.g. mountain ash, juniper, crabapple)
- Fakta menarik
- The waxy red tips on a Bohemian Waxwing's secondary feathers, which give the family its name, are colored by carotenoid pigments absorbed from the fruit the birds eat.
- Sebaran
- Holarctic: breeds across northern Eurasia (Scandinavia through Siberia/Russia) and northwestern North America (Alaska and northwestern Canada); winters irruptively and nomadically south into southern Canada, the northern/western United States, and central Europe/Asia depending on fruit crop availability
- Makanan
- Primarily fruit and berries (especially mountain ash, juniper, crabapple, and other small fruits) in fall/winter; supplements with insects caught by flycatching during the breeding season, and feeds insects to nestlings
- Ukuran
- 0,175 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,33 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
