Polytypic. Length 7.3". Smaller than the bohemian waxwing, with pale yellow belly and whitish undertail coverts. Tip of tail usually yellow, broadest in adult males, narrowest in immature females.

Ornithologist Mya, winner of the BTO Young Ornithologist Award 2023, alerted by social media of the waxwings arrival, heads into the centre of town to see a flock of Bohemian waxwing feeding on ...