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I managed to capture a decent look at this little guy’s name-sake ruby crown.
A tiny bird seemingly overflowing with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue. Smaller than a warbler or chickadee, this plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. Alas, the male’s brilliant ruby crown patch usually stays hidden—your best chance to see it is to find an excited male singing in spring or summer.
These tiny birds are just coming back to the Davis Mountains in west Texas.
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First of this species I've encountered this Fall. I'd forgotten how frustrating it is to photo these frenetic little birds. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
I spent a considerable amount f time yesterday trying to capture this Ruby-crowned Kinglet as it flit amoung the trees and bushes with either a branch across it's face or deep in the shadows...finally, it came out in the open, oh so briefly, to capture a shot including it's brightly colored 'ruby-crown'!
It was a pleasure to see this one return heading into the winter season. Photographed in the backyard setup in East Memphis.
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Sunrise at Ruby Beach along Washington's Olympic Coast. The only day on my trip that it didn't rain....
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 0.5
Aperture f/13.0
Focal Length 31 mm
ISO Speed 50
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
(Corthylio calendula)
from 'Barred Life: Backyard Birdwatching Project' (2018-2022)
Whidbey Island, Washington
Fazenda Grotão - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Hesperiini
Subtribe: Calpodina
Genus: Cobalus Hübner, 1819
Species: C. virbius (Cramer, 1777)
Binomial name: Cobalus virbius
This tiny bird was flashing his crown, positioning himself directly in front of other kinglets. Sunlight made that patch of red feathers glow like a hot coal. It was breathtaking and made me laugh at the same time. Ruby crowned Kinglet South Coast Botanic Garden 3754
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Photographed at my home in Yakima County, Washington. There have been a couple of these little kinglets hanging out at my home recently. I have seen them rarely in the past at my home. IMG_8587
A tiny bird that overflows with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) seems to forage almost frantically through lower branches of shrubs and trees. Its habit of constantly flicking its wings is a key identification clue. Outside of hummingbirds, Kinglets are the smallest of Northern American birds. This plain green-gray bird has a white eyering and a white bar on the wing. The male’s brilliant ruby crown patch usually stays hidden. Your best chance to see it is to find an excited male singing in spring or summer. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet lays a very large clutch of eggs. There can be up to 12 in a single nest. Although the eggs themselves weigh only about a fiftieth of an ounce, an entire clutch can weigh as much as the female herself. Metabolic studies on Ruby-crowned Kinglets suggest that these tiny birds use only about 10 calories per day.
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Boise, Idaho
The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, one of North America's smallest songbirds, has a loud, complex song and, with up to 12 eggs, lays the largest clutch of any North American passerine for its size. Males and females are nearly identical in plumage -- olive green-gray on the upperparts with two strong white wing-bars and a broken, white eye-ring. The male has a scarlet crown patch, which is usually concealed unless agitated.
During migration and winter, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet occupies a variety of habitats and is often recognized by its constant wing-flicking. As a breeder, it inhabits spruce-fir forests of the northern and mountainous western United States and Canada. Its nest is hidden, often near the trunk and up to 30 meters above the ground, making reproductive data difficult to gather. Much remains to be learned about the breeding biology and behavior of this species.
Ruby has a new issue online! #56 includes the work of max gomez canle, aron wiesenfeld, mayumi Otero, yevgen samborsky, julia kristina selin, sandy smith and kitty clark.
(image by Sandy Smith)
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Ruby tiene un nuevo número online! la edición#56 incluye el trabajo de max gomez canle, aron wiesenfeld, mayumi otero, yevgen samborsky, julia kristina selin, sandy smith y kitty clark.
(imagen por Sandy Smith)
Teeny little birds, and always on the move. Most of the time their crown is hidden. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
A sunburst behind a sea stack looking towards Abbey Island on Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, USA via 500px ift.tt/2i9sSan
Photographed above Cle Elum Reservoir, Kittitas County, Washington along the Cle Elum River. IMG_9137
Ruby-crowned kinglet, Rondeau Provincial Park, Oct 21, 2018.
Lot of people looking for the great kiskadee in the park today. Many were successful in finding it, but there were lots of other birds around.
This ruby-crowned kinglet was flitting through a grape vine looking for something to eat.
Of course he wasn't showing much of the ruby crown.
Regulus calendula
The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird that lays a very large clutch of eggs—there can be up to 12 in a single nest. Although the eggs themselves weigh only about a fiftieth of an ounce, an entire clutch can weigh as much as the female herself.
One immature male ruby throat and one female ruby throat hummingbird are the last two hanging out by the the flowers and feeders. This young male is showing his red feathers and by next Spring when he returns it will be all filled in. He is already aggressive in chasing off others including Cardinals and finches and bees. I shall miss them being around when he leaves in the next few days but will look forward to feeding the migrate birds from Canada and the northern states.
A female RTHU on thistle. The eggs this bird lays are about the size of a pea. Our beautiful world, pass it on.