It is a species distributed throughout the entire Western Palearctic, from the western part of Europe to the southeastern edge around the Black Sea, where it becomes less common (BirdLife International, 2024). In Europe it occupies the whole territory (Keller et al., 2020). In the Iberian Peninsula its distribution is broad, being absent only from the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla (Romay and Justo in SEO/BirdLife, 2022).

In Madrid it is distributed across the western half of the region, coinciding with mid- and high-altitude areas of the sierra, associated with coniferous forests, especially black pine and Scots pine woodlands.

In the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park it occurs on the slopes and foothills of the main massifs, appearing abundantly in the pinewoods of the Fuenfría valley, in La Barranca, in the forests around the La Morcuera area, in the Lozoya valley, and in the northern end of the park, on the forested slopes northeast of the Navafría pass.