Ruby-crowned Kinglet Images, Facts and Information:
Corthylio calendula
- Ruby-crowned Kinglets are tiny, olive-green birds with white eye rings, white wing bars, dark eyes and rounded heads. Males have ruby red crests that are only visible when they are excited.
- Ruby-crowned Kinglets are migratory although some populations in the West are year round residents who just move to lower elevations during the winter.
- During the breeding season Ruby-crowned Kinglets are found in the northwestern parts of the U.S. and across Canada in spruce-fir forests, mixed woods and mountain shrub habitat, during the winter and migration they are found in thickets and woods across the country as far south as Mexico.
- Ruby-crowned Kinglets eat spiders and insects, they will also eat some seeds and fruit.
- Ruby-crowned Kinglets lay 5 to 12 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The female incubates and they are monogamous.
- Groups of Ruby-crowned Kinglets can be called a “castle”, “princedom”, “court” and “dynasty” of kinglets.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Ruby-crowned Kinglet photos.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched in a hawthorn
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched in a hawthorn
Location: Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2018
Ruby-crowned Kinglet peering out of a hawthorn
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet peering out of a hawthorn
Location: Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2018
Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched in front of a dark background
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched in front of a dark background
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/8/2018
Ruby-crowned Kinglet and ruby-colored sumac leaves
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet and ruby-colored sumac leaves
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet about to lift off
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet about to lift off
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet male perched on a sumac
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet male perched on a sumac
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Autumn colors and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Title: Autumn colors and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet in fall colors
Title: Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet in fall colors
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet on a bright, sunny day
Title: Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet on a bright, sunny day
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet and the colors of fall
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet and the colors of fall
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Autumn male Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Title: Autumn male Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet on an autumn morning
Title: Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet on an autumn morning
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet in soft morning light
Title: Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet in soft morning light
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet shaking his feathers
Title: Male Ruby-crowned Kinglet shaking his feathers
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Stretching Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Title: Stretching Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched above autumn sumacs
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet perched above autumn sumacs
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Autumn Ruby-crowned Kinglet in northern Utah
Title: Autumn Ruby-crowned Kinglet in northern Utah
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Adult male Ruby-crowned Kinglet showing his crown
Title: Adult male Ruby-crowned Kinglet showing his crown
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet close up on rabbitbrush
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet close up on rabbitbrush
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/27/2017
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – Small in the Frame
Title: Ruby-crowned Kinglet – Small in the Frame
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/27/2017