Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Regulus calendula
33.3931, -81.9637
Field Notes
Description:
"Medium kinglet, olive-green upperparts and gray-washed, pale yellow underparts. Head has inconspicuous tuft of red crown feathers, white spectacles. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is slightly notched and has white edges. Weak fluttering flight on shallow wing beats." - http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/122/_/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet.aspx
Habitat:
Marsh edge
Notes:
"Ruby-Crowned Kinglets prey on spiders, pseudoscorpions, and many types of insects, including aphids, wasps, ants, and bark beetles. Kinglets usually forage in high tree foliage, hovering and pecking in order to glean insects from the surface of leaves and branches. These birds also eat a small amount of seeds and fruit, from poison-oak berries to the pulp of dogwood berries." - http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/lifehistory
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