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Overview
Golden-crowned Kinglet: Very small, warbler-like bird, olive-green to gray upperparts and pale breast. Head has bright orange crown patch bordered with yellow and black, white eyebrows and black bill. Tail is short and wings have two bars. Weak fluttering flight on shallow wing beats.
Range and Habitat
Golden-crowned Kinglet: Common from southern Alaska to central Canada and southeast to the Carolinas; spends winters south to Florida and the Gulf coast. Preferred habitats include dense conifer forests; also found in deciduous and mixed forests.
Topo Map:
Perching-like Body
Listen to Call
Voice Text
"tsee-tsee-tsee"
Interesting Facts
Each of the Golden-crowned Kinglet's nostrils are covered by a single, tiny feather.
Formerly breeding almost exclusively in the remote, boreal spruce-fir forests of North America, it has been expanding its breeding range southward into spruce plantings in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
They usually raises two large broods of young, despite the short nesting season of the northern boreal forest.
A group of kinglets has many collective nouns, including a "castle", "court", "princedom", and "dynasty" of kinglets.
Bird Term Glossary
Author
Gary Owen Dick
Related Birds
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hutton's Vireo
Blackburnian Warbler
Bell's Vireo
Cassin's Vireo
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