---
title: "Zniczek zwyczajny"
description: "Regulus ignicapilla — Ptaki. The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/common-firecrest
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zniczek zwyczajny

> Regulus ignicapilla — Ptaki. The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family.

- Scientific name: *Regulus ignicapilla*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 14801
- Wikidata: [Q27471](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27471)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117097](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117097)

## Names

- en: Common Firecrest
- de: Sommergoldhähnchen
- es: Reyezuelo listado
- fr: Roitelet triple-bandeau
- it: Regulus ignicapillus
- pt: Estrelinha-de-cabeça-listada
- pl: Zniczek zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

FR (2285), ES (2098), IT (1326), DE (1287), PT (1108), GB (683), AT (325), RU (318), CH (265), UA (252), NL (237), PL (151)

## Summary

The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. It breeds in most of temperate Europe and northwestern Africa, and is partially migratory, with birds from central Europe wintering to the south and west of their breeding range. Firecrests in the Balearic Islands and north Africa are widely recognised as a separate subspecies, but the population on Madeira, previously also treated as a subspecies, is now treated as a distinct species, the Madeira firecrest, Regulus madeirensis. A fossil ancestor of the firecrest has been identified from a…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_firecrest

## Photo

![Zniczek zwyczajny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-firecrest/medium.jpg)

Photo: Yennenga · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361634528

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-firecrest?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).