Japanese Waxwing
Bombycilla japonica(Siebold, H, 1824)
English (US) Japanese Waxwing
The Japanese Waxwing (Bombycilla japonica) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Bombycillidae (Waxwings) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds southeastern Siberia and northern Manchuria; winters to southern China and Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Bombycilla japonica
- Family
- Bombycillidae (Waxwings)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Japanese Waxwing
- Described by
- (Siebold, H, 1824)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Bombycivora japonica
- Described by
- (Siebold, H, 1824)
- Type locality
- 'Fyco ac Tsikuzen' = Kumamoto and Fukuoka prefectures, Kyushu, Japan.
- Original description
- De historiae naturalis in Japonia statu, nec non de augmento emolumentisque in dercursu perscrutationum exspectandis dissertatio, cui accedunt Spicilegia Faunae Japonicae p.13,note
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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