AnimalvsAnimal
Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), Uitkerke, Belgium (16366736689)🐦

Photo: Frank Vassen · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesPasseriformesBombycillidae
Birds

🐦Bohemian Waxwing

Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Le Jaseur boréal (Bombycilla garrulus), autrefois aussi nommé « Jaseur des neiges » est une espèce de passereaux frugivores migrateurs. Il se reproduit dans les forêts boréales du nord de l'Europe, de l'Asie et de l'Amérique du Nord. Le Jaseur d'Amérique n'est présent qu'en Amérique du Nord et le Jaseur du Japon n'est présent qu'en Asie. Le Jaseur boréal est le seul présent sur tous les continents ayant des zones subarctiques.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
None yet
Photos
1
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/1,140th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bohemian Waxwing

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.05 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.05 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.12 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
14 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
14 days
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bohemian Waxwing yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyBombycillidae
  6. ›genusBombycilla
  7. ›speciesBombycilla garrulus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusBombycilla
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusBombycilla
More

More about the Bohemian Waxwing

In other languages
太平鸟 (zh), jemiołuszka zwyczajna (pl), 황여새 (ko), Jaseur boréal (fr), Bombycilla garrulus (es), csonttollú (hu) … and 24 more languages
Videos

No videos of the Bohemian Waxwing yet.

We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.

All videos →
Tools

Compare the Bohemian Waxwing

Pick a tool — the Bohemian Waxwing is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

997 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

700th heaviest of 783Open →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

11 branchesOpen →