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Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus Satrapa)
© Charles H. Warren

Length: 3-4 in.
Habitat: coniferous forests; other forests, thickets (migration, winter).

Restless, flitting movements and a very small size are good signs that the bird you are looking at is a kinglet. Scarecely pausing to perch, kinglets glean small insects and their eggs from leaves and bark. In its flittering flight the Golden-crowned Kinglet utters a high, thin ssst, which is often repeated several times as a phrase.