GAP Analysis Predicted Distribution Map

Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)

Species Code: PSMI

Legend:
= Core Habitat
= Marginal Habitat

Breeding Range Map
The green area shows the predicted habitats for breeding only. The habitats were identified using 1991 satellite imagery, Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA), other datasets and experts throughout the state, as part of the Washington Gap Analysis Project. Habitats used during non-breeding months and migratory rest-stops were not mapped.

Metadata (Data about data or how the map was made)

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Map with Breeding Bird Atlas records

Other maps & Information:

Breeding Bird Atlas
NatureMapping observations
during breeding season
NatureMapping observations
throughout the year

The Bushtit is common in shrubby growth, hardwood, and mixed forests associated with residential area throughout the Puget Trough, west to Ocean Shores, and south to Vancouver. It occurs along the Columbia River at low elevations east to Rock Creek.

On the west side, core zones were all below Silver Fir. Closed canopy early seral conifer forests were adequate. On the east side, it occurred peripherally and locally in scattered locations in low zones in Klickitat, Yakima, and Kittitas Counties, where low-to-mid-density development, irrigated pastures and orchards, wetlands, hardwood forests, and mixed forests were good habitat.

With increased conversion of conifer forests to residential areas, Bushtit habitat has increased greatly in the form of regrowth in cut-over areas and ornamental plantings in residential areas. In eastern Washington, the isolated populations may have been established via emigration from the west across Snoqualmie Pass and other passes in the central and southern Cascades.

Translated from the Washington Gap Analysis Bird Volume by Uchenna Bright
Text edited by Gussie Litwer
Webpage designed by Dave Lester