Habitats: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (4), desert/xeric shrubland (5), Mediterranean woodland (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (3), tropical/subtropical savanna (1)
Found in 16 samples
Brazil: Guaribas Biological Reserve (fragment III)
Mexico: La Paz, Finca Irlanda (winter 2001), Santa Martha (second growth), Santa Martha (open), Cozumel Island (birds, 2004 - 2007)
United States: Sandrock Cliff (spring), Sandrock Cliff (fall), McGregor Range (arroyo), McGregor Range (upland), Hopland Research and Extension Center, Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (1998), St. Catherine's Island, Mojave Desert
Venezuela: Cumaná, Araya Peninsula (tropical thorn scrub)
See also Polioptila caerulea, Polioptila melanura, Polioptila plumbea