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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "_Regulus ignicapilla_ · eBird.org\n\nInfo\n\nCommon name: Common Firecrest\nScientific name: _Regulus ignicapilla_\n\nThe common firecrest is one of Europe’s smallest birds, rivalling the goldcrest at just 9–10 cm and 4–7 grams. Despite its tiny size, it is unmistakable at close range: a fiery orange-and-yellow crown stripe (raised in display), a bold white supercilium, and bronze-green shoulder patches that distinguish it clearly from the plainer goldcrest.\n\nThe firecrest is a breeding resident across much of Iberia and the western Mediterranean, preferring mixed and coniferous woodland where it forages restlessly through the canopy, gleaning insects from needles and leaves. Its call — a thin, high-pitched _zi-zi-zi_ — is easily missed among the general woodland noise and is precisely the kind of sound that Merlin’s microphone is designed to catch.\n\nIberia holds some of the densest firecrest populations in Europe, and the wooded hillsides around Guimarães are ideal habitat.\n\n* * *\n\n## Song & Call\n\nRecording XC788686 via xeno-canto.org — Creative Commons licensed.\n\n* * *\n\n**First recorded:** 26 May 2026 · Cruz de Argola, Guimarães, Portugal",
  "title": "Common Firecrest"
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