Rocky Mountains from central Alberta, Idaho and Montana to northern New Mexico.
Altho tame and unsuspicious as others of the species, they are not generous with their songs. Ray says he never heard a more beautiful serenade than was given by one of these birds from the tip of a 200-foot fir amid the remote Sierra wilderness. Thru the calm air the mellow notes floated over the wild surroundings with a poignancy which accentuated the loneliness.
Sierra Nevadas of Central California.
Usually a 25–foot tree in favorable location; rarely 80 feet high; distributed on mountains of Oregon, California and British Columbia.