cedar waxwings are brown birds with yellow tipped tail and red tipped wings.
cedar waxwings are brown birds with yellow tipped tail and red tipped wings.
brown bird with yellow tipped tail and red tipped wings?
cedar waxwings
cedar waxwings are medium-sized birds approximately long and weighing roughly . they are smaller and browner than their close relative, the bohemian waxwing (which breeds farther to the north and west). their markings are a "silky, shiny collection of brown, gray, and lemon-yellow, accented with a subdued crest, rakish black mask, and brilliant-red wax droplets on the wing feathers." these droplets may be the same color as the madrone berries they are known to eat. these birds' most prominent feature is this small cluster of red wax-like droplets on tips of secondary flight feathers on the wings, a feature they share with the bohemian waxwing (but not the japanese waxwing). the wings are "broad and pointed, like a starling's." the tail is typically yellow or orange depending on diet. birds that have fed on berries of introduced eurasian honeysuckles while growing tail feathers will have darker orange-tipped tail-feathers. the tail is somewhat short, and square-tipped. adults have a pale yellow belly. the waxwing's crest often "lies flat and droops over the back of the head." it has a short and wide bill. the waxwing's black mask has a thin white border. immature birds are streaked on the throat and flanks, and often do not have the black mask of the adults. males and females look alike.
cedar waxwing
the red fox, ruppell's fox, and tibetan sand fox possess white-tipped tails. the arctic fox's tail-tip is of the same color as the rest of the tail (white or blue-gray) blanford's fox usually possesses a black-tipped tail, but a small number of specimens (2% in israel, 24% in the united arab emirates) possess a light-tipped tail. the other foxes in this group (bengal, cape, corsac, fennec, kit, pale, and swift) all possess black-tipped or dark-tipped tails.









































section::::fossil species.









































bullet::::- †"vulpes hassani"









































bullet::::- †"vulpes praeglacialis" - kormos (found in petralona cave, greece)









































bullet::::- †"vulpes qiuzhudingi" (2014)
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