Day 49 -> The Firecrest Bird

A female adult Firecrest bird (Image by Google)

      The Common Firecrest or just Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) is a small European bird species. It has 9 cm in length and a wingspan of 13–16 cm. Curiously, it weighs the same as a teaspoonful of sugar, that is, about 4–7 grams. It has bright olive-green upperparts with a bronze-coloured patch on each shoulder, and whitish underparts washed with brownish-grey on the breast and flanks. It has two white wingbars, a tiny black pointed bill, and brownish-black legs. The head pattern is striking, with a black eye stripe, long white supercilium, and a crest which is bright yellow in the female and mainly orange in the male. The sexes are very similar, apart from the crest colour, although the female is a little duller in plumage and on average slightly smaller.
     They are insectivorous, monogamous and Is is considered UK's smallest bird and categorized as a least concern species in terms of extinction possibility.

~Ally