The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa) is a very small songbird in the family Regulidae that lives throughout much of North America.

[7] It produces a series of high-pitched calls on a single note, and tends not to fear human approach.

[citation needed] Its nest is a well-concealed hanging cup suspended from a conifer branch.

Its breeding habitat is coniferous forests across Canada, the northeastern and western United States, Mexico and Central America.

There are three migratory subspecies in the United States and Canada, differing in size, bill length, back and rump colours, wing bar width and colour, and length of supercilium:[13] The subspecies "amoenus" has been synonymised with apache, as the distinctions between these populations are obscured by individual variation.