Kinglets

» Very little, lively bird that often flicks its wings

» Thin bill

» Broken eye ring

» Olive higher parts

» Light olive below parts

» White wing bars

» Male has red scrap in center of crown (not always visible)

» Habitat prefers coniferous forests on breeding grounds. Ordinary in deciduous woods and thickets throughout winter months in the south.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets are one of our negligible birds, measuring only 4.25 inches and weighing concerning one-quarter of an ounce. For their size, they put down one of the main clutches of eggs of any North American songbird, averaging almost 8 eggs per clutch, with as many as 12 eggs recorded in a single nest. Ruby-crowned Kinglets classically build their nests shut to the trunk high in a conifer. The nests are balanced from twigs below a sheltering and concealing horizontal branch. Frequently deeper than they are broad, with thin openings, they conceal the brooding adult so that only the tip of her tail can be seen.