It may be found near ponds in Florida scrub, or scrubby habitat, and in marshy flatwoods.

These are birds of warm open scrubby habitats, but some species are at least partially migratory, leaving for warmer and wetter areas in winter.

It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in sandy and scrubby habitat.

It grows in moist spots in bare and scrubby habitat, rocky slopes and plateau.

The plant grows in the dry open, scrubby, and forested habitat of these mountains.

The guans and curassows live in trees, but the smaller chachalacas are found in more open scrubby habitats.

It grows in scrubby habitat in dry desert canyons.

This mousebird prefers scrubby dry habitats, such as thornveld, fynbos scrub and semi-desert.

It grows in scrubby habitat among the shrubs of the sagebrush.

While migrating, the species still preferred bottomland forests, though it was reported in scrubby habitats when this was not available.