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Common firecrest Franconville 02🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesRegulidae
Birds

🐦Common firecrest

Regulus ignicapilla (Temminck, 1820)

Золотому́шка червоночу́ба (Regulus ignicapillus) — дрібний птах родини золотомушкових (Regulidae). Один з 5-ти видів роду. Найменший (поряд з золотомушкою жовточубою) птах фауни України. В Україні осілий, кочовий, перелітний вид. Гніздиться номінативний підвид. Для Гірського Криму описаний ендемічний підвид — R. i. tauricus.

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Regulus ignicapilla
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Common firecrest

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
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Tail length
0.04 m
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Wing length
0.05 m
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Beak length
0.01 m
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Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common firecrest yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyRegulidae
  6. ›genusRegulus
  7. ›speciesRegulus ignicapilla
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusRegulus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusRegulus
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Regulus ignicapilla (de), Regulus ignicapilla (es), Roitelet à triple bandeau (fr), Regulus ignicapilla (nl), 普通戴菊 (zh), Zniczek zwyczajny (pl) … and 26 more languages
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