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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Black-capped Kingfisher]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Bushtit]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:Black-capped_Kingfisher.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Photo by {{user|nothinghill|nothinghill}}]] | + | [[Image:Bushtit.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Male by {{user|Glen+Tepke|Glen Tepke}}]] |
| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| - | Black head and rufous belly and flanks separated by white throat and collar. Bill bright red, purple-black upperparts.<br /> | + | One of [[North America]]'s smallest birds, other than hummingbirds: 4.5 inches (11 cm) in length, nearly half of which is the long, narrow tail. Weight is only 5.3 g<br /> |
| - | Juveniles are duller, have a buffy collar, dusky scaling on breast and a brownish-orange bill. | + | Eyes are dark in the male, but cream to yellowish in the female.<br /> |
| - | ====Flight==== | + | Coastal birds have brown crowns; interior birds are more gray overall with brown cheeks. Birds from southern [[Texas]] southward sometimes sport black masks. |
| - | In flight shows conspicuous white patch at base of primaries. | + | |
| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Breeds in [[India]]n subcontinent, [[Myanmar]], [[China]] and [[Korea]]. <br /> | + | Southern [[British Columbia]] and far western [[USA]] through [[Mexico]] to [[Guatemala]]. |
| - | Winters throughout southeast [[Asia]] to [[Sumatra]], [[Borneo]], [[Sulawesi]] and the [[Philippines]].<br /> | + | ==Habitat== |
| - | Uncommon winter visitor, and passage migrant in [[Singapore]]. | + | Two populations differ in using scrub along the coast, and mainly Oak-Pine woodlands in the mountains. Especially southern populations are limited to mountains. |
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| - | '''[''[[Black-capped Kingfisher|Read More...]]'']''' | + | '''[''[[Bushtit|Read More...]]'']''' |
Revision as of 19:46, 31 July 2012
Identification
One of North America's smallest birds, other than hummingbirds: 4.5 inches (11 cm) in length, nearly half of which is the long, narrow tail. Weight is only 5.3 g
Eyes are dark in the male, but cream to yellowish in the female.
Coastal birds have brown crowns; interior birds are more gray overall with brown cheeks. Birds from southern Texas southward sometimes sport black masks.
Distribution
Southern British Columbia and far western USA through Mexico to Guatemala.
Habitat
Two populations differ in using scrub along the coast, and mainly Oak-Pine woodlands in the mountains. Especially southern populations are limited to mountains.
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