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Trees, Stars, and Birds 



remain near your home all winter ? If so, which species ? 

 Some spring you may have the good fortune to hear the 



Redrawn from bulletins of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 

 FIG. 1 66. Some insects that are destroyed by the kinglet: A, tree hopper; 

 BB, young and adult leaf hoppers ; D, winged and wingless forms of plant lice ; 

 E, scale insects. All three times their natural size. 



beautiful song of the ruby-crowned kinglet, and you will 

 be surprised to find that so loud a sound comes from so 

 tiny a bird. How can such small birds keep warm? 

 Why are they called kinglets? The golden-crowned 

 kinglet, like many other Northern birds, is attracted to 

 evergreens, although often seen in other trees and in 

 bushes. 



Kinglets eat bugs, beetles, wasps, flies, and insect eggs 

 and the berries of elder and poison ivy. The insects 

 they eat include some of the most harmful kinds, 

 plant lice, scale insects, tree hoppers, and leaf hoppers. 



