The São Miguel goldcrest (Regulus regulus azoricus), Estrelinha-de-poupa in Portuguese, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. One of several goldcrest insular subspecies in the North Atlantic archipelagos of Macaronesia, it is endemic to São Miguel in the Azores where it is a non-migratory resident.[1]

São Miguel goldcrest
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Regulidae
Genus: Regulus
Species:
Subspecies:
R. r. azoricus
Trinomial name
Regulus regulus azoricus
Seebohm, 1883

References

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  1. ^ Päckert, Martin; & Martens, Jochen. (2004). Song dialects on the Atlantic islands: goldcrests of the Azores (Regulus regulus azoricus, R. r. sanctae-mariae, R. r. inermis). Journal of Ornithology 145(1): 23-30.[1]


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