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a pair found in Enonkishu Conservancy in the Greater Masai Mara ecosystem, Kenya
IUCN Red List Status: ENDANGERED with population trend
updated in 2024 as Decreasing
also Grey Crowned-Crane
Balearica regulorum
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The grey crowned crane has a breeding display involving dancing, bowing, and jumping. It has a booming call which involves inflation of the red gular sac. It also makes a honking sound quite different from the trumpeting of other crane species. Both sexes dance, and immature birds join the adults. Dancing is an integral part of courtship, but also may be done at any time of the year.
Flocks of 30–150 birds are not uncommon.
Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.
Ruby-crowned Kinglets right now in this area are plentiful and singing their energetic, upbeat song. It's always great to see them with their crest showing.
Saratoga Spa State Park
One of only a couple shots I got off this day. We heard a lot more.
Scientists interested in movement and energetics have discovered that White-crowned Sparrows can run on a treadmill at a pace of about one-third of a mile an hour without tiring out. I'd like to know how they got a sparrow to do this???
So much more to this story which I will tell later - I saw this one on a walk and quickly called Kipp to assist with my camera. Incredibly difficult to capture this wee little frenetic bird!
Their song: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet/sounds
Golden-crowned Kinglets are boldly marked with a black eyebrow stripe and flashy lemon-yellow crest. A good look can require some patience, as they spend much of their time high up in dense spruce or fir foliage. To find them, listen for their high, thin call notes and song. Though barely larger than a hummingbird, this frenetically active bird can survive –40 degree nights, sometimes huddling together for warmth. They breed in the far north and montane west and visit most of North America during winter.
First of the season
Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories (technically, kilocalories) per day.
Hard to believe the way they never sit still.
Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. (Wikipedia).
This particular breeding male was photographed at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Southern California 2014.
Millennium Park, Chicago
The fountain projects random faces taken from the street and changes them every several minutes.
More about the fountain in Wikipedia:
"A migrating White-crowned Sparrow was once tracked moving 300 miles in a single night. Alaskan White-crowned Sparrows migrate about 2,600 miles to winter in Southern California."
Ruby-crowned kinglet---I was just about to go to another viewing area -- when this little Ruby-crowned kinglet showed up to please me.
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A near-endemic species... and is considered Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
It was taken deep in the rainforest on a very rainy and dark day, after climbing a slippery and muddy slope.
Ngoc Linh - Vietnam
This year I have more than 5 of this cuties on my feeder so happy to see them and hear it have a great week ahead! :)
This golden-crowned kinglet is a close cousin to the ruby-crowned kinglet I found yesterday. Notice the gold crown bordered by black on the top of its head. This is probably a female since all we can see is solid yellow color there, but it could also be a male because he can hide his orange patch there when he wants to. There were probably 50 kinglets feeding on tiny midges hatching from a backwater marsh here at Lake Meyer Park early this morning. It was really fun to watch since they were all working down at eye level instead of high in the tree canopy.
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Socorro Peak, New Mexico.
MEASUREMENTS
Both Sexes
Length: 3.5-4.3 in (9-11 cm)
Weight: 0.2-0.3 oz (5-10 g)
Wingspan: 6.3-7.1 in (16-18 cm)
Ruby-crowned Kinglets are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar. This wingbar contrasts with an adjacent blackish bar in the wing. The “ruby crown” of the male is only occasionally visible.
These are restless, acrobatic birds that move quickly through foliage, typically at lower and middle levels. They flick their wings almost constantly as they go.
A yellow-crowned night heron from last June. Three of them flew in and landed in a dead tree near me, stayed for ten minutes, and then flew off never to be seen again....
Eastern Africa has a great variety of birds and many are particularly colourful. One of the larger eye catchers is the Grey Crowned Crane.
The Grey Crowned Crane is one of 15 species of crane and unfortunately it is listed as being endangered. That being said we came across a few on our trip, but most were distant sightings. This particular one was seen and photographed in the Amboseli National Park.