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Home > Blogs > Birds and Butterflies > Archives > 2009 > November > 17 > Entry

Reflections of An Amateur Birder- Golden-crowned Kinglet

By Doug Horvath | Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 02:45 PM

Written By Lisa McGurk

One of my co-workers was walking the white trail at Germantown MetroPark last week and saw a group of Golden-crowned Kinglets. This is a new bird to me so I did some research on the Cornell Lab of Orinthology website. The Golden-crowned Kinglet is frequently found in coniferous woods (they were in our spruce trees). They formerly bred almost exclusively in the boreal spruce-fir forests of North America, but they have been expanding their breeding range into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. Another interesting fact about them is that the female feeds her brood only on the first day after they leave the nest and then starts laying the second set of eggs while the male takes care of the first brood. See www.allaboutbirds.org for more information on this beautiful, small bird.

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