The red-to-orange drupes persist on female trees through winter as a food source for birds — Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists the species as attracting birds, and cedar waxwings are characteristic late-winter consumers of persistent holly fruit.

The ripe fruit attracts fruit-eating birds; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center documents the fruit as a wildlife food (Fruit-birds), and frugivorous songbirds such as the cedar waxwing feed on persimmons.

Cedar waxwing flocks strip arrowwood viburnum drupes during fall migration.

The Missouri Botanical Garden notes the showy orange fruit ripens in late fall and may persist on bare branches into winter — persistent soft fruit at that season is the kind of resource fruit-eating songbirds such as cedar waxwings take, though the PlantFinder profile does not name specific birds.

A representative of the fruit-eating songbirds that strip the late-summer drupes; cedar waxwings are classic consumers of cherry-type drupes within the 33-bird-species fruit value the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center documents.

NC State explicitly names cedar waxwings among the songbirds that eat the dark berries; the late-summer / early-fall ripening timing aligns with cedar waxwing flock foraging patterns.

Cedar waxwings travel in flocks and can strip a serviceberry tree clean in a single afternoon visit; one of the most famous wildlife-vs-gardener fruit competitions.

Cedar waxwings are fruit specialists that feed heavily on native cherries; the sources document chokecherry fruit as broadly important bird food, so waxwing use is expected though not named species-by-species.

Ripe figs are a soft, sugar-rich fruit readily taken by frugivorous songbirds such as cedar waxwings where the trees fruit; prompt human harvest competes with birds for the crop.

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center documents cedar waxwings among the many birds — including quail, pheasants, and woodpeckers — that consume the purple drupes, which persist on the tree into winter when other food is scarce.

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center notes the juicy "berries" are consumed by many kinds of wildlife, including the cedar waxwing, which is named for this tree.

Cedar waxwings strip ripe drupes from dogwood trees in late summer and fall, as they do with serviceberry and winterberry — a flock can clear a tree in a single visit. Dogwood drupes are a meaningful fall-migration food source for waxwings + thrushes.

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center records the red haws as fruit for birds; the fruit persists into winter, feeding cedar waxwings and other fruit-eating songbirds when little else is available.

Fruit-eating songbirds such as cedar waxwings characteristically forage on dogwood drupes; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center documents the fruits attracting songbirds generally, but does not name the cedar waxwing specifically for Cornus nuttallii, so confidence is plausible.

The bright orange berries persist on female plants through fall and winter, providing late-season fruit for frugivorous birds such as waxwings when little else is fruiting.

The bright red pomes persist from November into February and are eaten by cedar waxwings and many other songbirds; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center lists "Birds eat berries" and "Attracts: Birds," and toyon is documented as winter forage for more than twenty bird species.

Cedar waxwings and other songbirds tolerate the saponins that make winterberry drupes toxic to mammals; the bright red berries persist on bare branches through winter as critical late-season bird food.

Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder notes the small black cherries are bitter to humans but loved by birds. Cedar waxwings are classic frugivores of ornamental cherries, stripping the early-summer fruit.