Birds Identified: Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Golden-crowned Kinglet has these characteristics:
- Hopping or climbing
- Smaller than robin
- Mostly dull green or brownish green
- Red present
- Yellow or orange
- Underparts plain
- Head stripes or bands
- Crown patch
- Wing bands or bars
- North summer (June through August)
- South winter (November through February)
- Wood habitat
- Perched high (generally above middle of trees when perched or foraging)
- Perched low (generally below middle of trees when perched or foraging)
- Short forays (flies out from perch and returns)
- Jerks tail or body (repeated dipping of body, or flipping or pumping of tail)
- Occurs in flocks (from 4 or 5 to thousands)
- Staccato and twitter call (short sharp notes or rapid series of notes: tinkling, trilling, sputtering, or percussive)
- High or thin song (high pitched and weak; lisping, sizzling, or hissing quality)
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Eric Haines,
erich@acm.org