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Golden-crowned Kinglet

Regulus satrapa · Family Regulidae

Regulus satrapa

Family Regulidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Regulidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,757,275
Countries and territories with records
11
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gary Irwin · Regulus satrapa -Canada-8a.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Gary Irwin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Kirill Ignatyev · Regulus_satrapa_-_Golden-crowned_Kinglet_XC165209.mp3 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kirill Ignatyev · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 3,757,275 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (76.4%) and Canada (23.3%); together they account for 99.8% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Regulus satrapa combines the genus name Regulus with the species epithet satrapa. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Regulus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Regulus regulus, Regulus ignicapilla and Regulus goodfellowi.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 6 species of the family Regulidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corthylio calendula. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (2,695,471). The family Regulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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