Goldcrest

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• It is the smallest bird in Europe, at about six grams, and even so it breeds in forests where winter drops below minus twenty degrees: to survive the night it has to eat almost its own weight in insects every day.
• It lays up to eleven eggs in a clutch, one of the largest of any European passerine, in a hanging nest of moss and cobweb the size of a golf ball.
• In winter it sleeps huddled with other goldcrests in a tight ball among the branches, sharing body heat to survive the coldest nights.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Coniferous woodland, fir and pine woods and parks with conifers of Europe and Asia

Birth weight

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Size at birth

Altricial: born blind, naked or with sparse down and entirely dependent

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

16 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

9 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulus_regulus

Best time: All year round in pine and fir woods; in winter it joins mixed flocks and drops down into lower woodland, parks and gardens.