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Kinglets
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Very small, active bird that often flicks its wings
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Thin bill
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Broken eye ring
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Olive upper parts
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Pale olive under parts
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White wing bars
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Male has red patch in center of crown (not always visible)
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Habitat Prefers coniferous forests on breeding grounds.
Common in deciduous woods and thickets during winter
months in the south.
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Ruby-crowned Kinglets are one of our smallest birds, measuring only
4.25 inches and weighing about one-quarter of an ounce. For their
size, they lay one of the largest clutches of eggs of any North American
songbird, averaging nearly 8 eggs per clutch, with as many as 12 eggs
recorded in a single nest.Ruby-crowned Kinglets typically build their
nests close to the trunk high in a conifer. The nests are suspended
from twigs below a sheltering and concealing horizontal branch. Often
deeper than they are wide, with constricted openings, they conceal
the brooding adult so that only the tip of her tail can be seen.
In the eastern part of the range, the highest population densities
occur in the black spruce bogs and muskegs of Canada, whereas in the
West, spruce-fir, lodgepole pine, and Douglas fir forests are used.
The breeding range encompasses most of Canada and Alaska, extending
south in the east to Maine, northern New England, and the Adirondacks;
in the West, the breeding range extends south throughout the Rocky
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| Migrating birds stay on track
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Part
I
November
19, 2004