Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Flamecrest
Regulus goodfellowi
- legendary
- 75 km/h
- Least Concern
Taiwan's tiniest endemic, a needle-tip of a bird with a crown that looks lit from inside. Flickers through fir branches like a wind-blown ember.
- Population
- stable, restricted as endemic to Taiwan
- Habitat
- Taiwan high-elevation conifer and mixed montane forest above 2000 meters
- Diet
- tiny insects, spiders, springtails gleaned from conifer needles
- Size
- 0.09 m
- Wingspan
- 0.15 m
