Species: Zonotrichia leucophrys

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Breeding range extends from northern Alaska to Labrador, south to southern California, Nevada, central Arizona, northern New Mexico, central Manitoba, southeastern Quebec, and Newfoundland. The five recognized subspecies are fairly distinct in their distributions, with very little overlap of breeding areas (Morton 2002). Subspecies <i>nuttalli </i>is a nonmigratory resident of coastal California; <i>pugetensis </i>breeds along the Pacific coast from northern California to southern British Columbia; <i>oriantha </i>breeds in the central western United States and the Sierra Nevada; <i>leucophrys </i>breeds across northern Quebec, Labrador, and Newfoundland; and <i>gambelii </i>breeds throughout Alaska east to northwestern Ontario and south to southcentral British Columbia (Dunn et al. 1995). <br><br>During the nonbreeding season, the species ranges casually to central and southcentral Alaska and occurs regularly from southern British Columbia, southeastern Washington, southern Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky to western North Carolina, south to southern Baja California and southern mainland of Mexico, Gulf coast, and Cuba. Subspecies <i>pugetensis </i>winters along the Pacific coast from Washington to southern California; <i>oriantha</i> winters from the southern U.S. border to Baja California and southern Mexico; <i>leucophrys </i>winters in the eastern United States north to the Great Lakes and rarely in New England north to Massachusetts; and <i>gambelii </i>winters throughout the western United States and sparsely in the eastern United States (Dunn et al. 1995).