General Description: Ruby-crowned Kinglets (Regulus calendula) are tiny gray birds with a thin, pointy beak and black and white wingbars. If you are lucky, you might get flashed with brilliant-red crown feathers that usually are concealed beneath the gray feathers. During the breeding season, they get a bit of yellow on the wings, sides, and belly.

Favored Habitat: Desert and urban areas.

Where to Find: Ruby-crowned Kinglets are winter visitors to the deserts, but they breed in the local mountains. Look for them at Corn Creek and in city parks during winter, and up on Mt. Charleston during summer.

Comments: Ruby-crowned Kinglets have an amazingly loud voice.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets are very busy, always flitting around, bouncing, and shaking their wings.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet with a flash of red as the crown feathers are exposed during preening.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets have two white wingbars, both of which are followed by a broad black wingbar.