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title: "Tagarela–japonês"
description: "Bombycilla japonica — Aves. The Japanese waxwing (Bombycilla japonica) is a fairly small passerine bird in the waxwing family found in the eastern Palaearctic, where it breeds south of the breeding range of the related Bohemian waxwing, but overlaps extensively with it in winter."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/japanese-waxwing
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tagarela–japonês

> Bombycilla japonica — Aves. The Japanese waxwing (Bombycilla japonica) is a fairly small passerine bird in the waxwing family found in the eastern Palaearctic, where it breeds south of the breeding range of the related Bohemian waxwing, but overlaps extensively with it in winter.

- Scientific name: *Bombycilla japonica*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 1264
- Wikidata: [Q697413](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q697413)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7432](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7432)

## Names

- en: Japanese Waxwing
- de: Blutseidenschwanz
- es: Ampelis Japonés
- fr: Jaseur du Japon
- nl: Japanse pestvogel
- pt: Tagarela–japonês
- pl: Jemiołuszka japońska

## Countries with the most observations

CN (333), JP (154), KR (98), RU (90), TW (53), PH (24), HK (16)

## Summary

The Japanese waxwing (Bombycilla japonica) is a fairly small passerine bird in the waxwing family found in the eastern Palaearctic, where it breeds south of the breeding range of the related Bohemian waxwing, but overlaps extensively with it in winter. It feeds mainly on fruit and berries but also eats insects during the summer. The nest is a cup of twigs lined with grass and moss which is built in a tree. In males, the secondary wing feathers have red tips, the resemblance of which to sealing wax gives these birds their common name. It is listed by IUCN as Near Threatened, due to loss and degradation of its preferred…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_waxwing

## Photo

![Tagarela–japonês](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/japanese-waxwing/medium.jpg)

Photo: bko · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/354034080

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/japanese-waxwing?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).