page_title: Cassin's kingbird
section_title: Distribution and habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Cassin's kingbird / Distribution and habitat
caption_attribution_description: Cassin's Kingbird , Tyrannus_vociferans, hand-colored lithograph
context_page_description: Cassin's kingbird is a large tyrant flycatcher native to western North America. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist John Cassin.
context_section_description: In the summer, these birds can be found in California and from Montana to Utah, along the eastern Rocky Mountains. Their habitat includes rangelands and savannas.
  These birds migrate to their winter quarters between Southern California and northern Central America. They are permanent residents in south-central Mexico, and their main wintering ranges are west of the Gulf of California on Baja California Sur, and east of the sea on the mainland of western Mexico.
caption: U.S. Government lithograph of Cassin's kingbird
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