Mar 07, 2011: View/download wallpaper size (1920х1080, 0,3 M). When I examined the photos, I was a little bit surprised by one detail: waxwings have very big mouths, ending under the eyes. Such big mouths are usually characteristic for the birds who feed by catching insects on the wing, eg, swallows,, swifts, nightjars (you can also see exammples of birds with normal mouths — rook, greenfinch). But waxwings eat berries and fruits?

The riddle was solved by the same source: “Waxwings probably feed their chickens by moskitoes and other flying insects which are abundant in Northern forests in those times. Waxwings catch their prey on the wing, like a flycatcher, and wait for the prey sitting on tops of trees”. That`s why they have a mouth “from ear to ear”.

species Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus