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Bombycilla garrulus - large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing

waxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips

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Indeed, during the winter of 2004-05, France witnessed a large and unexpected invasion of Bohemian waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) (10), a species known to migrate from circumpolar areas where pseudotuberculosis is endemic.

Sudden onset of pseudotuberculosis in humans, France, 2004-05

Among wintering birds are the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus), the snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), the shore lark (Eremophila alpestris), and the waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus).

4 Protected areas and biosphere reserves in deciduous forests

currucoides), Townsend's solitaire (Myadestes townsendi), and the American robin (Turdus migratorius), or members of the Bombycillidae family, such as the waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus and B.

Seed and seedling ecology of pinon and juniper species in the pygmy woodlands of western North America

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