Ruby-crowned Kinglet Video--With Crown!
My brain is so totally fried from the bird watching trade show and birding industry leaders. So, leave you with two things. Number one, Minnesota BirdNerd explains why the half male/half female cardinal is not a hermaphrodite but a gynandromorph.
And honestly, I am too fried at the Atlanta airport to even begin to think how to pronounce that, let alone spell it.
And how about a cleansing kinglet! Below is a video of a ruby-crowned kinglet not only coming to a bird feed (a window bird feeder at that--how did that happen?!?) but it's also flashing its little ruby crown! Squeeeeeeeeee
Find more videos like this on North Carolina Wildlife Federation
And honestly, I am too fried at the Atlanta airport to even begin to think how to pronounce that, let alone spell it.
And how about a cleansing kinglet! Below is a video of a ruby-crowned kinglet not only coming to a bird feed (a window bird feeder at that--how did that happen?!?) but it's also flashing its little ruby crown! Squeeeeeeeeee
Find more videos like this on North Carolina Wildlife Federation
posted by birdchick at 5:18 PM
9 Comments:
Never heard of this phenomen before. Interesting. I must ask amoung the experts in sweden about it.
I am still waiting for a ruby-crowned in sweden. It will happen sometime. Hopefully on my watch.
Guy-NAN-dro-morph? Something like that.
Jazz bird FTW! Love the crest-flashing action. That's nifty cool.
Thank you for the ruby-crowned kinglet video. I have never seen anything like that and it's wonderful!
That's SOOOO wrong. RCK @ a window feeder showing the crown - come on people.....
Wow, that is really something! I've only seen a ruby-crowned kinglet pop up just a teeny sliver of his crown. I didn't realize there was so much red under there. Crazy!
Here's a random thought (apart from "Cool!" of course) - the chickadees that come to my feeders do a very, very similar fluffing thing with their head feathers - they just lack that amazing bit of red, there. But the overall behavior looks just the same - they look around, fluff their head feathers, grab a seed... Maybe it's a "I'm so studly, don't even THINK about trying to share this seed with me!" thing? (Or, alternatively, maybe "I'm so gorgeous, ladies, don't you want to share some seed?" Bird pickup lines, hmmm.)
I've had at least three people that come into the store I work at mention that they've had a ruby-crowned kinglet at their window feeder, and I've had them as well, esp. when there are shelled peanuts in the seed mix.
You tend to get flashed (hee!) when there is movement inside the house--it's like the kinglet can't quite make it out but wants whatever it is to BACK OFF.
Whoa!
I guess I never realized that the crown isn't a crest, per se, but a "cleft".
Fussy little buggers.
: )
We've had a RCK hanging around for a few weeks (upstate NY). He alternates between eating suet and challenging that intruder mocking him in the window.
I hope he'll be able to make it thought the sub-zero temps forecast for the week ahead.
Kes
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