Category: Cedar Waxwings normally have yellow tail tips but ones that consume lots of Morrow’s Honeysuckle berries will have orange tail tips

  • Two Cedar Waxwings

    January 3, 2026 Two Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) sitting in a tree looking for berries. The Waxwing in full view has a tail with yellow tips. This is the normal color. Beginning in the 1960s some Cedar Waxwings began to develop orange tail tips. This is the result of their eating the berries of the…