Nomads tracking berries
Dec 30, 2018
3 minutes
By John Thaxton
Sleek and beautiful, pale silver gray with a subtle wash of brown around the head and neck and several small but intensely colored markings, Bohemian waxwings get the first half of their name for their nomadic, wandering—bohemian, if you will—lifestyle. They feed primarily on berries and have an uncanny ability to locate abundant food supplies, with the result that they travel far and wide and, unlike most birds, do not maintain a territory. They breed where they find an
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