Living in coniferous northern forests BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS come so seldom to inhabited regions that a glimpse of their trim forms is an event. I encountered a flock of eight feeding in cedars, on a warm January day in 1916. Their lisping conversation was higher pitched than the Cedar Waxwings and it was this which attracted my attention. I watched them for half an hour and approached within ten feet. Breakfast over, they foregathered in a cedartop, whirled aloft in a compact bunch and disappeared southward.
Altho larger and more sedate in movement than the Cedar Waxwings, they may be more common than supposed, as they are easily mistaken for the more familiar birds.
Circumpolar. Southward in winter irregularly over entire temperate Untied States.