If asked to name the smallest bird that visits backyard feeders, I suspect most people would answer “hummingbird.” And that would be correct. At less than four grams (28.3 grams = one ounce), these ...

If asked to name the smallest bird that visits backyard feeders, I suspect most people would answer “hummingbird.” And that would be correct. At less than four grams (28.3 grams = one ounce), these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male ruby-crowned kinglet, photographed on Jan. 2 in Hocking County On June 27, 1833, legendary frontier ornithologist John ...

At first glance Golden-crowned Kinglets resemble chickadees, with their gray bodies and black head stripes, but look closer for pale wing bars on the kinglet. The best identifying feature is flashes ...

The golden-crowned kinglet is a wee thing, smaller than any other bird in our area, except the ruby-throated hummingbird. Unlike the hummingbird, however, the kinglet is inconspicuous and little known ...

The golden-crowned kinglet is not really a common bird here, but nor is it a rare one. The Game and Fish Department’s checklist of North Dakota birds calls it “fairly common.” That is accurate, I ...

Golden-crowned kinglets have appeared in these essays several times, but never as the main feature. So I decided to devote most of one essay to these tiny birds. I was prompted to do so on an autumn ...

One of my favorite spring migrants is a delightful sprite, the ruby-crowned kinglet. The average arrival date in Maine is around Tax Day and a few will arrive by the first of April. Ruby-crowned ...

I nearly crushed it with my foot before the bird took one life-saving hop into the brush. I had but a fraction of a second in the shade to see a gold crown and maybe a greenish cast to its back.

Golden-crowned kinglets are a mystery and a marvel of wintertime survival in the north woods. These grey and olive birds weigh only the mass of two pennies — just bigger than a Rufous Hummingbird.

If from now until September you spot a tiny tear-shaped bird flitting around the outer branches of a red spruce, Fraser fir or eastern hemlock, you're probably observing a kinglet. That supposition ...