Breeding.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Various forest types from southeastern Manitoba to Nova Scotia and south to central Texas and southern Florida, but mostly absent from the southern Great Lakes region and southern New England.\u00a0 Largely associated with coniferous forests in the north, but deciduous forests and swamps in the south.<\/p>

Its breeding habitats and distribution roughly correspond to the availability of certain mosses and lichens (mainly Usnea<\/em> lichens in the north and Spanish Moss in the southeastern U.S.) that it uses in nest construction.<\/p>

Nonbreeding.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Winters in various types of woodlands, including mangroves, as well as brush and edge habitats.\u00a0 The bulk of the global population winters in the West Indies, north to central Florida and east to the Virgin Islands, with progressively decreasing numbers southeast into the Leeward Islands to around Martinique.\u00a0\u00a0Also common on Isla Providencia and San Andr\u00e9s, and regular on the ABC Islands, but almost unknown from South America.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t