Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Description: 3 3/4-4 1/2" Tiny, similar to Golden-crowned Kinglet, but greener with no face pattern except for narrow white eye ring, males have tuft of red feathers on crown, kept concealed unless bird is aroused	Habitat: Coniferous forests in summer. In winter often seen in mixed woods, thickets, brush, hedges. Flicks wings rapidly when calling.
Nesting: 6-9 cream-colored eggs lightly speckled with brown, in a large mass of moss, lichens, and plant down with a small feather-lined cup at the top	Range: breeds from Alaska east to Newfoundland south to new Mexico in west, Great Lakes and New England in the east, winters south to Oklahoma, east to Florida
Voice: song an excited musical chattering	Diet: insects, tree sap, berries, spiders; few seeds

Notes: loud song for such a tiny bird, forms loose, mixed-species winter flocks with titmice, nuthatches, Brown Creepers, Golden-crowned Kinglets, and warblers.

When present in Oklahoma: not abundant, but few in winter statewide, none in summer