Summer residents of boreal and temperate montane forests, the ruby-crowned kinglet and golden-crowned ... within their vocal repertoire, the song golden-crowned kinglets is sometimes one of ...

Its tinier relative the golden-crowned kinglet was common ... somehow melded artfully into a pleasing aria. Well-named song sparrows delivered their complex tunes, and white-throated sparrows ...

The golden-crowned kinglet is not really a common bird here, but nor is it a rare one. The Game and Fish Department’s checklist of North Dakota birds calls it “fairly common.” That is ...