Talk:Common firecrest

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Formatting is broken. The text spills over the table in Mozilla. Daniel Quinlan 05:17, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)


 * Difficult to see why. It's fine in my browser, and the formatting, as far as I can see, is identical to the other bird articles. jimfbleak 06:21, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

"Wren" in Europe
From the Wren article: "In Europe, species of Regulus are commonly known as "wrens", the Common Firecrest and Goldcrest as "fire-crested wren" and "golden-crested wren", respectively." This is not referenced there, but, if sources can be found, this could be added to the "In culture" section for completion. Snowman (talk) 10:35, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

What conifer tree is shown?
File:Regulus ignicapillus -Galicia, Spain -singing in a conifer tree-8 (1).jpg Can anyone identify the type of conifer tree in this image from Galicia, Spain? Snowman (talk) 11:25, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Insectivorous means eating arachnids?
The article currently says, "All species of kinglet are almost exclusively insectivorous, preying on small arthropods with soft cuticles, such as springtails, aphids and spiders." Neither springtails nor spiders are classified as insects. If it's "almost exclusively" insects, maybe you should make the majority of your examples belong to that Class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CarlFink (talk • contribs) 15:29, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Range
Is the range map in the infobox correct? It seems strange that the bird should be shown as a winter visitor in Southern England, a region at the north of the bird's range and widely separated from the bulk of the "winter visitor" region in Southern Europe. It looks as if the individuals wintering in England would actually have to fly north in winter? Also, the map seems to contradict the text which says the bird "breeds in Europe from southern England, France, Spain and Portugal ..." and "is now widespread as a breeding bird in much of southern England". I am assuming the bird does not breed in winter. 81.159.75.178 (talk) 23:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo
Can we use a different photo? The current photo shows the bird in a highly atypical posture,with feathers fluffed up from the cold. We could use this photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regulus_ignicapillus_Roitelet_triple-bandeau.jpg. Although it shows the bird in another atypical situation - in a human hand - it does provide a better representation of the bird's usual appearance. Ricobirdo (talk) 00:50, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Nobody responded to this suggestion so I made the change. Ricobirdo (talk) 01:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * So now we have that image on the page twice. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  02:08, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I did not know which image was being discussed. It is even more unnatural for a Firecrest to be held, so I have put back the previous infobox image. Snowman (talk) 10:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * If anyone has taken any good photographs of Firecrests, then please upload them to commons for use on the language wikis. Snowman (talk) 10:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Map needs updating with northern expansion
The range map in the infobox is out of date. The species is spreading northwards, and has been breeding in considerable numbers (thousands of pairs) in southern Sweden for many years now, likewise in Latvia and Estonia, and in summer 2020 the first nesting pairs were confirmed in southern Finland. (Source: Birdlife Finland. [in Finnish]) Yet the yellow 'breeding summer visitor' range shown excludes all these. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:19, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

need for better image
The presented 'main' photo at march/2021 is not good in order to separate the species from Regulus madeirensis. 89.180.46.188 (talk) 10:47, 30 March 2021 (UTC)