Along almost the whole coast of California and far into Alaska these birds are found in their favorite haunts — the spruce forest wherever it has been spared by lumberman or farmer; and in the dry air of the Pacific coast their ringing tones seem to me to be even clearer and sweeter than in the east. —Dwight.
Pacific coast of North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition and possibly upper Austral zones from Juneau, Alaska, to San Diego county, California.