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Birds that contain X

2 birds containing the letter X — each with origin, classification, and notes.

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Below are birds that contain the letter X anywhere in the name. Each of the 2 birds below opens to a full profile.

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WaxwingXantus's Hummingbird

List of Birds That Contain X

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    Waxwing

    Bombycilla garrulus

    A plump, crested bird with silky pinkish-brown plumage, a waxy red tips on its secondary feathers, and a voracious appetite for berries — irrupts into Western Europe and North America in winter when Scandinavian berry crops fail.

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    Xantus's Hummingbird

    Basilinna xantusii

    A small, range-restricted hummingbird of southern Baja California with a brilliant green back and rufous belly — endemic to the peninsula and one of the few "X" birds in field guides.

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