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Fine-art Cedar Waxwing plate in the Audubon style. The silky-crested berry-eater, masked and yellow-tipped.
Each print is made to order. You can cancel within 12 hours of ordering, after which it goes into production and cannot be cancelled. Secure checkout via Stripe.
The bird leans toward the berry. Crest swept back, black mask sharp across the eye, one wing slightly open. The moment before the take.
Bombycilla cedrorum is all finish and restraint: pale cinnamon chest warming to grey-brown on the back, a tail banded clean yellow as though dipped in paint, and those small waxy red droplets at the tips of the secondary feathers that give the species its name. This plate, in the warm cream palette of the old naturalist prints, does justice to all of it.
The Cedar Waxwing is one of the few North American songbirds that can live almost entirely on fruit. In winter, berries are the near-total diet. The flocks move nomadically, following fruiting trees rather than holding territory - a species that does not defend a patch has nothing to broadcast, which is why the call is a thin, high trill and nothing louder. Breeding begins in July, later than almost any other songbird of its size, timed not to insect hatches but to the peak of summer berries.
The red tips on the wing feathers appear to signal age and condition. Older birds carry more of them. A bird with full red wingtips is a bird that has survived, which is worth something in January.
A plate like this has been the correct way to look at a waxwing since Audubon first made the case for the close study of a bird in stillness.
Each print is made to order through our global print partner and shipped from the production lab nearest you - allow a few days for printing plus local tracked delivery.
Each print is made to order. You can change or cancel it within 12 hours of ordering. After that it goes into production and can no longer be cancelled, though we will always put right anything that arrives damaged.
The available sizes (up to A2) and any framed finishes are shown above. Choose yours before checkout.
Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
Because each print is made to order, contact us within 14 days of delivery and we will put it right.
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