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	Enjoying the ruby-crowned kinglet's extended visit
		During the warmer months, the ruby-crowned kinglet patrols the upper stories of coniferous forest, and it's particularly fond of spruces, in which it usually builds its hanging, deep-cupped nest.
		Their even smaller cousin, the golden-crowned kinglet, is famous for braving the winters of the far north (and without the energy-saving benefit of torpor, a lowering of the body temperature during sleep), so the ruby-crowned is probably not escaping the cold so much as following the southerly drift of available food.
		Barely 4 inches long, the ruby is olive-gray with two white wing bars and white rings around the eye.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/24/HOG1S68JVJ1.DTL&type=printable (574 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula, is a very small songbird.
		Adults are olive-grey on the upperparts with light underparts, with a thin fl bill and a short tail.
		The adult male has a red patch on his crown which is usually only visible when he is agitated (see photo).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet (188 words)

	rc_king (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ruby-crowned Kinglet breeds from northwestern and north-central Alaska, central Yukon, northwestern and southern Mackenzie across the Prairie provinces east to Labrador and Newfoundland; south along the cordillera to southern California and across the north-central United States.
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is widely distributed in coniferous and mixed forests throughout the province during spring and autumn migration, although it has not been reported from large areas of the Coast Mountains, the Rocky Mountain Trench north of Donald, and the Muskwa, Cassiar, Kechika, and Tahltan mountains.
		In winter, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is abundant in the Georgia Depression, and occasionally occurs on the coast as far north as the lower Skeena River valley.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /nh_papers/gracebell/english/rc_king.html (2030 words)

	Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kinglets are members of the bird family Regulidae, meaning "little king." They are so named for the brightly colored feathers "crowning" their heads.
		Ruby-crowned Kinglets primarily inhabit boreal-coniferous forest and mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands and thickets.
		Ruby-crowned kinglets may be distinguished from other species in these flocks by their eye rings and habitual wing-flicking.
	www.nps.gov /gaar/Expanded/key_values/natural_resources/birds/bird_descriptions/ruby-crowned_kinglet.htm (414 words)

	Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Gnatcatchers and Kinglets - Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		Kinglets in general may be confused with fall warblers and vireos.
		However kinglets are smaller birds (less than 4 inches in length from the tip of the bill to the tip of the tail) and have the habit of flicking their wings, something vireos and warblers do not generally do.
		Habitat: During the breeding season the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is found in the coniferous forest of the Northern Boreal Forest and Western Montane Forest.
	www.nearctica.com /birds/musci/Rcalen.htm (386 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		There is much to learn about the Kinglets, especially how, despite their small size, they survive and thrive in cold northern climates where days are short, nights are long, and temperatures may dip to -30° F. Side by side, the two species of North American Kinglets are easy to distinguish.
		Kinglets have 10 primary flight feathers, but the 10th primary flight feather, shown at the top of this photo, is reduced.
		Ruby- crowned Kinglets are important predators on insects, especially in coniferous forests.
	www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/rckinglet.htm (587 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, as well as the Golden-crowned Kinglet prefer northern coniferous forests but will frequent gardens and yards.
		The kinglets turn, hop and flick their wings continually as they search for insects and larvae among the leaves of pines and crevices of branches.
		The song of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is loud and opens with a high-pitched tee tee tee and then drops to a low tew tew tew and ends with a repeated ti-da-dee or li-ber-ty.
	www.birdnature.com /rckinglet.html (321 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		Ruby-crowned Kinglet populations can fluctuate widely, declining in response to logging activities or fire, but severe winter weather appears to have the greatest affect on numbers.
		Winter food sources are primarily spiders and insects and their eggs, as well as small amounts of weed seeds and fruits, including the berries of wax myrtle, poison ivy, and red cedar.
		Males display their ruby crown during bouts of song and during confrontations.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /rubycrowned_kinglet_info.htm (667 words)

	Birds - Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		A trifle larger than the golden-crowned kinglet, with a vermilion crest instead of a yellow and flame one, and with a decided preference for a warmer winter climate, and the ruby-crown's chief distinguishing characteristics are told.
		These rather confusing relatives would be less puzzling if it were the habit of either to keep quiet long enough to focus the opera-glasses on their crowns, which it only rarely is while some particularly promising haunt of insects that lurk beneath the rough bark of the ever-greens has to be thoroughly explored.
		It would appear to be over-large for the tiny bird, until we remember that kinglets are wont to have a numerous progeny in their pensile, globular home.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/birds-98.shtml (450 words)

	Birds » Wild Birds » Kinglet - Ruby Crowned Main Page
		The Ruby Crowned Kinglet is one of the smallest birds found in parts of the United States.
		Ruby Crowned Kinglets are migratory birds that travel north in summer to breed and winter in warmer, more southerly regions.
		Known to Audubon as the Ruby Crowned Wren, the Ruby Crowned Kinglet is one of the smallest birds found in parts of the United States.
	www.centralpets.com /animals/birds/wild_birds/wbd5901.html (582 words)

	Ruby Crowned Kinglet
		The Ruby Crowned Kinglets have caught the fancy of bird watchers and natu-ralists because of their little size and huge hearts.
		The Ruby Crowned Kinglets stay as one of the last birds to leave the region in the winter and one of the first to return in the spring.
		During the spring and summer, Ruby Crowned Kinglets feed on insects like spiders, ants, flies, moths, wasps and a variety of insect eggs at the tips of limbs and among the needles of the trees.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/birding/99559 (478 words)

	I.D. vireo-kinglet
		And the last photo of the kinglet is misleading to the extent it seems that the outer tail feather is whitish; it is just slightly disarranged and backlit, showing translucence.
		On a good color monitor you might note, however, that the eyering of the kinglet is white but that of the vireo is washed with pale yellow.
		The oft-heard, soft rattle of the kinglet is a dominant sound in wintering mixed flocks; it has been described as a scolding "je-dit, je-dit," or "chiditdit" or a machine-gun "ah-a-a-a-a-a-a," but it is not the least bit whinny.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/HUVI-v-RCKI.html (720 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most western wintering birds are found west of the edge of the foothills of the mountains.
		Hutton's Vireo can be confusing, sharing with the Ruby-crowned Kinglet an eye ring, similar coloring, two white wing bars, and the habit of wing flicking.
		Empidonax flycatchers are distinguished from Ruby-crowned Kinglets by their upright posture and flat two-toned bill.
	birds.cornell.edu /BOW/RUCKIN (697 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet description
		A short-bodied, round bird of 11cm, kinglets are olive-toned above, with a pale gray throat and dusky underparts.
		Vocalizations: The incessant song of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is composed of several high, thin "tsee" notes followed by descending "tew" notes and ended with warbled three-note phrases.
		Within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet was found in almost all ecological units, during the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Bird Inventory, June 1999 and 2000.
	www.nps.gov /yuch/Expanded/key_resources/birds/species_descriptions/rcki_description.htm (504 words)

	Kinglet family
		The Kinglets are a small family of very small arboreal birds in the Northern Hemisphere.
		This is the plainest of the kinglets since its ruby-red crown of the male is almost always hidden (it can just barely be seen in the photo below if you have a good monitor).
		Kinglets are often treated as a subfamily of the Sylvidae (Old World warblers; Voous 1977, Urban et al.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/kinglets.html (582 words)

	Kinglets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a greyish-olive-coloured bird with a short, pointed bill.
		The male Ruby-crowned Kinglet has a patch of red feathers on the top of its head which are normally hidden, but stand up when the bird becomes excited.
		Kinglets are known for their habit of nervously twitching their wings and being extremely loud for their size.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /programs/songbirds/kinglet.html (220 words)

	eNature.com Nature Guides
		Because kinglets weigh little, they are able to feed on the tips of conifer branches.
		It takes a sharp eye to see the male's red crown patch, which is usually erected for a few seconds at a time when the bird is displaying aggressively.
		Males have tuft of red feathers on crown, kept concealed unless bird is aroused.
	www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0263 (165 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Ruby-crowned backyard bird visits hummingbird feeder
		The ruby-crowned kinglet nests in sparse, patchy woods of the far north.
		This was the ruby-crowned kinglet most local birders are accustomed to seeing.
		"The male has a dark red crown patch which it exhibits when the bird is excited as in courtship or when defending a territory," according to the Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
	www.caller2.com /2001/january/23/today/birdwatc/15712.html (555 words)

	Long Live The King(lets)!--Ruby-crowned & Golden-crowned Kinglets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although Golden-crowned Kinglets seldom sing except on the breeding grounds, a Ruby-crowned occasionally blurts forth with his "liberty, liberty, liberty" in spring and fall migration.
		Kinglets have been called "butterfly birds" because they flutter about in trees and shrubs, flicking their wings and hovering at the tips of branches where they use sharp, fl bills to glean insects and spiders and their eggs.
		In winter the two kinglet species forage in mixed flocks in deciduous woodlots, but they also frequent Piedmont pine plantations and other habitats.
	www.hiltonpond.org /ThisWeek021022.html (947 words)

	ECOMORPHOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN RUBY-CROWNED (REGULUS CALENDULA ) AND GOLDEN-CROWNED (R. SATRAPA) KINGLETS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These conclusions are consistent with the observation that Ruby-crowned Kinglets are less specialized in choices of perching substrates and with the prominence of clinging in the Golden-crowned Kinglet.
		The relatively longer hind toe and hind claws of the Golden-crowned Kinglet are presumably an adaptation for clinging, as suggested for the European Goldcrest (Leisler and Thaler 1982) and for the Coal Tit (Parus ater) relative to the Blue Tit (P. caeruleus) (Partridge 1976).
		The Golden-crowned Kinglet fed predominantly in conifers, the Ruby-crowned in deciduous trees.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v108n04/p0880-p0888.html (5785 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I finally got this picture of the male but still wanted a picture showing his "ruby crown".
		The ruby crown is just barely visible but it is showing.
		Notice the broken eyering, fl legs and yellow feet, all of which are field marks of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
	members.aol.com /cascadebirdwatch/kinglet.htm (93 words)

	Birds: The Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		BASKETT says that the Kinglets come at a certain early spring date before the leaves are fully expanded, and flutter upward, while they take something from beneath the budding leaf or twig.
		The nest of this Kinglet is rarely seen.
		It may be heard at quite a distance, and in some respects bears more resemblance to the song of the English Sky-lark than to that of the Canary, to which Mr.
	www.birdnature.com /sep1897/kinglet.html (327 words)

	Canadian Biodiversity: Species: Birds: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This small, plump bird is a dusky gray above, with a yellow-gray underbelly.
		The male is distinguishable by its red crown.
		The ruby-crowned kinglet is an active, nervously energetic bird, which quickly flicks its wings while calling.
	www.canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca /english/species/birds/birdpages/reg_cal.htm (37 words)

	All About Birds
		One of North America's smallest birds, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet can be recognized by its constant wing-flicking.
		Song a jumble of notes, starting with two or three high "tsees," followed by five or six lower "tur" notes, and ending with repeated "tee-da-lett" phrases.
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird that lays a very large clutch of eggs.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet.html (130 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula, is a very small (Any bird having a musical call) songbird.
		They nest in a well-concealed hanging cup suspended from a conifer branch and may lay as many as twelve eggs in a clutch.
		Their song is a melodious warble and fairly loud.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruby-crowned_kinglet.htm (314 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Regulus calendula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This kinglet forages by moving among the tree branches and leaves, moving its wings to flush prey.
		The species most similar to the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is the Golden-crowned Kinglet.
		The Golden-crowned Kinglet has a white eye brow, dark eye stripe, and a yellow and fl border around its orange (male) or yellow (female) crown patch.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/rcalendula.html (363 words)

	Odd 2003 birds at RRBO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Occasionally, female Ruby-crowned Kinglets, which normally lack a crown altogether, have a few orange or red feathers.
		This bird had a rather short wing measurement for a male (54 mm), but females with crown patches this large have not been documented to our knowledge.
		The age of the bird is unknown, as the skull was already full ossified, and the shape of the tail feathers, sometimes helpful in ageing this species, were inconclusive.
	www.umd.umich.edu /dept/rouge_river/odd.html (287 words)

	BISON Species Account 041085 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ruby-crowned kinglets are residents in mountains from Mogollon and Sacramento highlands northward and are considered rare to locally common.
		Ruby-crowned kinglets are rare winter-residents at the White Sands National Monument, in Dona Ana and Otero counties 76.
		Ruby-crowned kinglets of Fort Bliss are fairly common from the end of September to the middle of April, and are uncommon from the middle of April to the middle of May 103.
	www.fw.vt.edu /fishex/nmex_main/species/041085.htm (3187 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Regulus satrapa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Color: Orange crown patch (male) or yellow crown patch (female) bordered by yellow and fl; white eyebrow; fl eye stripe; olive-gray above; dark wings; two white wing bars; whitish below.
		The Golden-crowned Kinglet is listed as Threatened in North Carolina.
		The ruby patch of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is not always visible.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/rsatrapa.html (392 words)

	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
		Ruby-crowned kinglets typically hover at food sources much like hummingbirds, gleaning insects from the foliage.
		This kinglet adapted his feeding methods to hover at the bottom of the suet feeder, pecking at suet.
		When male ruby-crowned kinglets are feeling defensive or aggressive, they have a red patch of feathers concealed beneath the olive-gray feathers on the tops of their heads that they will expose.
	deeanne-m.50megs.com /rubycrowned.html (120 words)

	Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Both kinglets have a nervous habit of flicking their wings when hopping about limbs in a tree.
		Food of both kinglets is gleaned from tree bark, eating insects, spiders, fruit, seed and they drink tree sap.
		The male has a red patch on the crown which is usually hidden while the female has no patch on the crown.
	www.elwas.org /highlights/data/20021013_211842329 (463 words)

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