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Re: Orange-tailed Waxwings
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>, "Donna S. Bailey" <dsbailey@conterra.com>
- Subject: Re: Orange-tailed Waxwings
- From: "Bob Wood" <bobwood@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:20:15 -0500
- References: <1.5.4.32.20001223032422.008877ac@conterra.com>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
The Broad-tailed Birder is also the result of diet.
Bob Wood
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West Columbia, SC 29169
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna S. Bailey" <dsbailey@conterra.com>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 10:24 PM
Subject: Orange-tailed Waxwings
> The process at work to produce the orange-tipped tail in Cedar Waxwings is
> dietary, at least according to Cornell, who did some research into this
some
> years ago. I've never seen an orange-tailed Cedar Waxwing but I would
like
> to see one.
>
> From the Cornell website
>
> http://birds.cornell.edu/bow/CEDWAX/index.html
>
> "In the East, forest regeneration and the planting of fruit-bearing
> ornamentals and crops has led to large increases in Cedar Waxwing
> populations. From 1965 to 1979, the population doubled. The changing diet
of
> Cedar Waxwings brought about an interesting effect: the appearance of
> orange, rather than yellow, terminal bands on the tail, a characteristic
not
> noted before 1950. This color change is attributed to pigments contained
in
> the fruit of the alien honeysuckle Lonicera morrowii, a recent addition to
> the Cedar Waxwing diet."
>
> Donna Bailey
> Winnsboro, SC
> e-mail: dsbailey@conterra.com
> URL: http://www.conterra.com/dsbailey
> "Where are the Birds? Migration across South Carolina"
>