Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Ecuador, Iceland, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Population
Estimated population is 15,000,000 (2010).
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) [XC313684]
by Frank Lambert from Mx, Distrito Federal, Lomas de Bezares, Calle Colina, Mexico (call)
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) [XC561191]
by James Link from Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States (call)
Subspecies
Birds from north of range named as subspecies aquilonia, but description based on wintering individuals of uncertain origin, and slight colour differences seem unreliable.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 - Breeds extreme southern Alaska and southern Yukon eastern across central and southern Canada to Newfoundland, southern in eastern USA to northern Georgia. Non-breeding regularly south to Costa Rica.
larifuga Burleigh, 1963 - Breeds south-western Canada and western USA south to northern California. Non-breeding southern probably to at least western Mexico.