This paper explored the question: “Is there a difference in bird species’ richness and diversity between low, medium, and high canopy height in the forest, ravine, marsh, bog, and pond microhabitats on Bainbridge Island, WA, USA?”. Because of the process of niche partitioning, different canopy heights had different levels of bird species’ diversity and richness. A combination of scan sampling and point intercept technique was used to systematically conduct bird count and identification in three different canopy heights. Abiotic condition data was also collected and was used for explanation of the differences in the results. Analysis on the data revealed a higher level of species richness in low and high canopy heights. Calculations of Simpson’s Diversity and one-way anova statistical test showed that the low canopy height had the highest species diversity while the high canopy height had the lowest species diversity due to its low level of species evenness, demonstrating diversity as a better measure of the state of bird species over a range of different canopy heights. Factors that contributed to the result included distance to resources that were in the lowest energy level and accessibility to hiding places. Although a lack of expertise in identification of birds and uses of estimation in a limited time period posted some degree of limitation to our data, statistical analysis rendered reliable results for the investigation.