Tiny songbird with an equally tiny tail and bill. Olive-green overall with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar. Note black bar below the wingbar.
Tiny, small featured bird. Adult males flash a brilliant red crown when excited; otherwise it is concealed.
Tiny, thin-billed bird filled with seemingly nervous energy. Forages (often at lower levels but only rarely on the ground) with twitchy motions and often flicks wings.
Olive-green above with a white wingbar and yellow-edged wing and tail feathers. Note black bar below the wingbar.
The namesake crown is usually concealed, but white eyering and small size are good field marks.
Frequently flicks wings while foraging.
Tiny and acrobatic. Often forages at lower and middle levels flicking its wings as it goes.
Plain face helps to distinguish Ruby-crowned Kinglet from the similar (but more boldly marked) Golden-crowned Kinglet.
Kinglets are tiny songbirds with relatively large heads, almost no neck, and thin tails. They have very small, thin, straight bills.
Smaller than a chickadee or warbler; about the same size as a Golden-crowned Kinglet.
sparrow-sized or smallerRuby-crowned Kinglets in coastal southern Alaska and British Columbia are slightly smaller and darker colored than elsewhere in their range.
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