It is found from southern Texas along the Gulf Coast to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Belize and northern Guatemala.

Cassin's kingbird has a darker head color and white tips on its outer tail feathers.

[4][5] Couch's kingbird is native to southern Texas, eastern Mexico, Belize, and northeastern Guatemala, living in lightly wooded areas, such as sparse forests, suburban areas, thorn forests, and edges of wooded streams.

Couch's kingbird likes to live near water, especially rivers, and can often be found near roadsides and forest edges.

[6][7] A vagrant individual was sighted in New York City in December 2014 and caught the attention of many birdwatchers.

They typically eat larger insects such as, but not limited to, beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, and large flies.

[7] Besides this, their diet is mostly unknown due to the lesser volume of birders noting this bird's behaviors.

It lays horizontally on higher altitude branches ranging 8–25 feet above the ground, aggressively guarded by adults chasing away larger birds from the nest site.