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 ...

Compare super chef Guy Fieri with the ruby-crowned kinglet; you may think they are one and the same. These birds are really ...

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.

Claim to fame: Hummingbirds may have the reputation of being Missouri’s smallest bird, but ruby-crowned kinglets have the distinction of being Missouri’s “other” tiny bird. Ruby-crowned kinglets ...

Few birds bespeak winter bird-watching in Houston like the ruby-crowned kinglet. The tiny, plump and hyperactive bird flits among trees and bushes everywhere. The kinglet migrates here for the winter, ...

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 ...

Several questions have been common at the store lately, so I thought I’d share them today. Question: What’s that tiny active bird I’ve seen at my suet lately? Answer: You are probably seeing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As more and more of the national and international news seems to be increasingly depressing and alarming, I imagine that many of you, like myself, might be looking for solace wherever you can find it.

It might not feel like the first day of spring today, but a look at this little ruby-crowned kinglet will warm your heart It’s a male “singing for a lady,” said Portsmouth photographer Christine ...