Essentially similar to the Phoebe, differing only as environment influences habits. They are more restless, raising crests and jerking tails even more frequently than their eastern relative.
NEST: beneath shelter, sometimes in hollow trees like the Phoebes.
EGGS: pure white; rarely, with a few small dots.
Western North America from Alaska south to Texas. East to central Kansas.
A tree sometimes 100 feet high, distributed from Labrador to New England and west to Dakota and Montana.