Description:

Tiny olive passerine, fairly compact in appearance, with distinctive face pattern. Greenish upperparts; very plain face, which lacks supercilium and eye-stripe, pale ring around large dark eye, and brilliant yellow to orange crown bordered by black. Juvenile lacks striking crown pattern of adult.

Distribution:

Common resident and altitudinal migrant all across the western Gilgit-Baltistan, except for Baltistan region. Mainly occurs in coniferous forest dominated by spruce, pine, fir and juniper, with well-developed undergrowth and shrubs, up to 3300m.

Behavior:

Forages mostly by clinging and hanging from twigs. Prefers to forage in dense branches, moving up and down vertical twigs; exploits underside of branches more often. Generally adapted to feed on small-sized prey, such as springtails, aphids, small moths and tiny spiders.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Goldcrest in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Goldcrest

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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