These little birds forage in high coniferous Western forests, from Canada to near the Rio Grande. They nest in dead aspens because the soft wood is easy to excavate. Like all other chickadees ...

This bird inhabits dense, mature and old-growth boreal and montane coniferous forests throughout northern North America. But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — ...

Locally common in low-altitude coniferous forests in the Pacific Northwest ... Migration and winter: most birds breeding in the Southwest winter in Mexico, and most breeding in the Pacific ...

Breeding: mostly in deciduous and/or mixed forest; birds in western U.S. primarily nest in riparian habitat with combination of shrubby willow understory and deciduous or coniferous overstory.