Distribution

Hooded Grosbeak is distributed somewhat disjunctly from northern Mexico south to Guatemala and northern El Salvador. It occurs in northwestern Mexico from southern Chihuahua to Durango; in northeastern Mexico in southern Tamualipas and eastern San Luis Potosí; in central and southwestern Mexico from Michoacán and Guerrero to Veracruz; and northern Oaxaca; and from Chiapas through Guatemala to northern El Salvador (Miller et al. 1957, Land 1970, Thurber et al. 1987, Howell and Webb 1995); Hooded Grosbeak possibly also occurs in southwestern Honduras (adjacent to known localities in El Salvador).

Endemic to the Americas.

Hooded Grosbeak occurs in montane evergreen forests from 1000-3500 m; they are most frequent in these forests above 1200 m as well as in damp, humid or moist oak, and pine-oak forest and forest edge (Binford 1989, Howell and Webb 1995, Parker et al. 1996, Komar 1998). They inhabit the upper strata of pine, pine-oak, oak, oak-sweet gum, and cypress forests (Webster 1974, Howell and Webb 1995, Komar 2002, Melèndez-Herrada et al. 2003, Tejeda-Cruz and Sutherland 2004). They also are reported to frequent gardens, parks or orchards, and edges of cultivation, including coffee plantations in Chiapas, Mexico (Clement 1993, Tejeda-Cruz and Sutherland 2004).

None reported.

None reported.