#1040 · 🐦 birds
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
🇳🇱 Roodkroonhaan ·Corthylio calendula
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Mykola Swarnyk · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Nell Cant · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © S.Wolf · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © cgbb2004 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Jonathan Eisen · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © selwynq · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The ruby-crowned kinglet ( Corthylio calendula ) is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is a member of the kinglet family. The bird has olive-green plumage with two white wing bars and a white eye-ring. Males have a red crown patch, which is usually concealed. The sexes are identical (apart from the crown), and juveniles are similar in plumage to adults. It is one of the smallest songbirds in North America. The ruby-crowned kinglet...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 97,671 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Nederlands
- Roodkroonhaan
- scientific name
- Corthylio calendula
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Regulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3
- sightings worldwide
- 97,671
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Regulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1289388, Wikidata Q117266977, GBIF 11261360, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.