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

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SpeciesPasseriformesBombycillidae
Birds

🐦Bohemian Waxwing

Bombycilla garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

황여새는 참새목 여새과의 한 종으로, 한국에서는 겨울철새이다. 몸은 전체적으로 회색이며, 얼굴과 꼬리 아래는 주황색이다. 긴 머리깃이 있고, 꼬리 끝이 선명한 노란색을 띤다. 날개는 끝이 검고, 흰색·노란색·빨간색 무늬가 있다. 검은색 눈선이 있다. 홍여새와 비슷하다. 꼬리깃의 끝이 선명한 황색을 띠어 황여새라고 한다. 날개는 붉은색과 검은색이 섞여 있으며 그 끝에 초 같은 부속물이 있다. 침엽수림, 정원 등에 서식하며 식물성 먹이를 먹으며, 특히 식물의 열매를 좋아한다. 4-6개의 알을 낳으며, 알은 옅은 청색에 검은색 반점이 있다. 10-100마리가 무리를 지어 나무 위에서 생활한다. 아시아 북부·북아메리카 서북부·시베리아 지대에서 번식하며, 번식지 남쪽의 온대지역에서 월동한다. 우리나라에서는 겨울에 볼 수 있다.

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

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  • 0.05 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
14 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
14 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 5
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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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.

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