Passeriformes

Kinglets and Firecrests (Regulidae)

HBW 11, p. 330 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 11 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Very small birds with medium-long wings and tail, thin, straight and pointed bill, longish legs; general grey-green plumage coloration offset by pale wingbars, variably contrasting head markings, one species plainer-headed.
• Nearctic, Palearctic and, marginally, Oriental Regions.
• Coniferous forest, also mixed and deciduous woodland, locally laurel forest with tree-heath.
• 1 genus, 6 species, 28 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.