Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorum | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Bombycillidae (Waxwings) |
Bombycilla cedrorum
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Bombycillidae (Waxwings)
This compact crested bird, drawn to fruit trees, is beloved for its sleek plumage, tender sociable flocking behaviors, and soft, sibilant calls, which are one of the first bird calls people lose as their high-frequency hearing degrades in middle age. To hear the high-frequency songs and calls of this or any other species with high-pitched vocalizations, even with my hearing aids, and to get a direction for them, I use Lang Elliott’s “Hear Birds Again”. The app is free to download, and the website has clear and easy directions to make the fairly inexpensive binaural headphones. To know if the bird is there in the first place, I use the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin app.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Birds Off a Feather 2024
- Birding on a Warmish December Day 2023
- New Wheels for Birding! 2023
- Hawk Ridge: Fifty Years and Counting! 2022
- Anything Can Happen 2022
- American Birding Association 2021 Bird of the Year 2021
- Fall Migration Update 2020
- May in August 2020
- Migration Begins Softly 2020
- Birds of Late Summer 2020
- Gall Bladders 2020
- Peace, Love, Woodstock, and Me! 2019
- Distressing News for Birders with Hearing Loss 2019
- Yellow-rumped Warblers 2018
- Drunken Birds: Final Recap 2018
- Sober Up! 2018
- Not So Very Drunk 2018
- Charles M. Schulz Museum Writes to Laura about Woodstock! 2018
- June Hike 2018
- Migration Update and Hawk Ridge Weekend 2016
- A Walk on the Western Waterfront Trail 2016
- Larking About with John Richardson 2016
- Numbers! 2015
- A Watcher of Birds 2015
- Bird Tongues Part 2 2014
- A Visit to the Audiologist 2014
- Fruit-eating Birds 2014
- Afternoon at Hawk Ridge 2014
- Morton Arboretum Canada Geese 2013
- Robin Spectacle 2011
- Gazing in Wonder at Nighthawks 2011
- Bird Deaths 2011
- Winter Bird Movements 2010
- A Perfect Day 2010
- Cedar Waxwing 2010
- Prolonged Autumn 2009
- "Intersex" Mallard 2009
- Late Summer Cedar Waxwings 2008
- August: the Grunge Month 2008
- Baker Woodlot Then and Now 2008
- Fruit-eating birds in winter 2007
- Blue Jays 2007
- August Day at Hawk Ridge 2007
- Drought 2007 2007
- Protecting Our Hearing with Earplugs 2006
- Breeding Bird Survey 2006 2006
- Sunday Spring Walk 2006
- Migration Update 2005
- Migration Strategies 2004
- Shoreline Conservation Tips 2004
- Cedar Waxwings 2004
- Crex Meadows and the Great Wisconsin Birding and Nature Trail 2004
- A Walk in Port Wing 2003
- Counting Birds 2003
- A Day in Port Wing 2003
- Russ's Cherry Tree 2003
- Strangers to Nature 2003
- Home from Ohio 2003
- Christmas and Birds 2002
- Sleeping Tight 2002
- Window Strikes, Part I 2002
- August 2002
- House Karma 2001
- Hunting 2001
- Pileated Woodpeckers and other striking birds 2001
- Gluttony 2000
- Christmas 2000
- Early Fall Migration 2000
- Mid-Summer Waxwings 2000
- Brown-headed Cowbird 2000
- Baby Birds, Part II 2000
- Cedar Waxwing feather tips (date not certain) 1999
- A Letter from Mr. Schulz 1999
- Tommy's Birthday 1999
- Autumn 1999
- Ovenbird 1999
- Nighthawk monitoring 1999
- Questions about Summer Birds 1999
- Wintering Robins, Waxwings, and Others 1999
- National Blue Jay Awareness Month: 1999
- Book Review: The Stokes Field Guide to Birds 1998
- Apple Cider 1998
- Photon and the Ants 1998
- Waxwing wing tips (re-recorded) 1997
- Mid- Late Summer 1997 1997
- Cedar Waxwing 1997
- Lakewood Pumping Station 1996
- Migration 1996
- Migration 1996
- Hawk Ridge 1996
- Presbyopic Owls and Aging Waxwings 1996
- Cedar Waxwing 1996
- Baby Bird Week II 1996
- Predation 1996
- Charles Schulz 1996
- Review: The Stokes Field Guide to Birds 1996
- Christmas Birds 1995
- Saw-whet Owl 1995
- Bohemian Waxwing 1995
- Rehab Report: Nike and Sweet Potato 1995
- Lakewood Pumping Station 1995
- Hawk Ridge 1995
- Baby waxwing 1995
- Hawk Ridge 1995
- Neighborliness 1995
- Cedar Waxwing (Placeholder) 1994
- Cedar Waxwing (Placeholder) 1994
- Gall Bladders 1993
- Waxwings and Kingbirds (Placeholder) 1993
- Gluttony 1992
- Hawk Ridge Assistants 1992
- Lazy Summer Days (Placeholder) 1992
- Cedar Waxwing 1992
- Bird Songs 1992
- Shorebirds 1992
- Cedar Waxwing (Placeholder) 1991
- Why do birds have crests? And Baker's Blue Jay Hot Cereal 1990
- Thirty-nine and Counting 1990
- How to Count Birds 1990
- Migration 1990
- Gall Bladders 1990
- Winter Bird Contest 1989 1989
- Fall Visitors to Duluth 1989
- Children and Birds (Placeholder) 1989
- Birds Laura Is Taking Care Of (Placeholder) 1989
- Dawn Dickey Duty 1989
- Pumphouse Kingbirds and Waxwings 1989
- Cedar Waxwing 1989
- Pumphouse Data 1989
- Fall's here! 1989
- Cedar Waxwing 1989
- Merlins 1989
- Birds of Ireland 1989
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 Summary 1988
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 1988
- Autumn Dawn 1988
- This year's drought 1988
- Cedar Waxwing mystery solved 1988
- Bohemian Waxwings 1988
- Economic Systems of Birds 1987
- Bird Gluttons (Remastered for 1987) 1987
- Dawn Dickey Duty 1987
- Cedar Waxwing 1987
- Summer's End 1987
- Birding by Canoe 1987
- More Questions about Birds 1987
- Robins 1987
- Waxwings 1987
- Bird Gluttons: Original 1986
- Why Birdwatch? Charlton Ogburn Explains 1986
- Fall Birds Passing Through Right Now 1986
- Fly Up and Tell 'Em You're from Duluth! 1986
- Cedar Waxwing 1986
- A Walk along the Western Waterfront Trail 1986