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 ...

Pileated woodpeckers do not discriminate between coniferous and deciduous ... enjoyed corresponding growth. The birds have proven to be adaptable to changing forest conditions.

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 — ...

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.

HABITAT: In the contiguous United States, the lynx is associated with southern boreal forest — subalpine coniferous forest in the West and ... Lynx will sometimes eat other small mammals and birds, ...