Brown-headed
Cowbird Range Map
The Brown-headed Cowbird breeds from southeastern
Alaska, northern British Columbia, and southern
Mackenzie east to southern Quebec and southern
Newfoundland, and south to Mexico, the Gulf Coast
and central Florida. It winters from northern
California, central Arizona, the Great Lakes
region, and New England south to Mexico, the Gulf
Coast, and southern Florida. The Brown-headed
Cowbird prefers habitats where low or scattered
trees are interspersed with grassland vegetation.
Originally occupied open grasslands and avoided
unbroken forestlands, but due to agriculture,
cattle grazing, and deforestation, occupies a
much expanded range. Now found in open coniferous
and deciduous woodlands, forest edges, brushy
thickets, agricultural land, and suburban areas.
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