any of several gregarious passerine songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, esp B. garrulus, having red waxy wing tips and crested heads: family Bombycillidae
waxwing in American English
(ˈwæksˌwɪŋ)
noun
any of several fruit-eating passerine birds (family Bombycillidae) of the NorthernHemisphere, with brown or gray silky plumage, a showy crest, and scarlet waxlike tips on the secondary wing feathers, as the cedar waxwing