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 ...

From Florida to Texas to Arizona and north to Alaska, there is one tiny bird that never fails to delight us. Most recently, we have been seeing them along the Big Springs Nature Trail in Island Park ...

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 ...

A birding friend once told me that trying to photograph a ruby-crowned kinglet was like trying to capture an image of popcorn while it’s popping. I was confirming that warning while madly moving about ...

There is a Christmas song that begins with these lyrics, “I’ll be home for Christmas. You can count on me,” and though we usually associate this sentimental song with the homecoming of our beloved ...

For the first time in a decade, the trees and bushes of my neighborhood have apparently contained enough of a buffet to entice a particularly minute and ravenous visitor to stay all winter: the ...

The kinglets are tiny birds, hard to see, hard to hear and hard to identify. There are two species, both of them fairly common in our area-but only during migration. Both nest farther to the north in ...

This tiny, thin-billed, wing-flicking insectivore is grayish olive with a conspicuous broken white eye ring. Polytypic. Length 4.2". Common. Breeding: breeds in boreal spruce-fir forests, preferably ...

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 ...

There are few birds in North America smaller than the intensely active ruby-crowned kinglet (3 1/2 to 4 inches). Of the two kinglet species found in Montana, the ruby-crowned is more likely to be ...

On June 27, 1833, legendary frontier ornithologist John James Audubon was deep in the wilds of Labrador. He and his party were seeking new birds in this poorly known region of northeastern Canada.