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freely on grasshoppers, storing them up for later use. For the most part the charges 
made against this bird “represent the occasional acts of individuals, or are local 
and not characteristic of the species as a whole” (Henshaw, 1911 and 1914, p. 498). 
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General Habits. —This handsome tricolored Woodpecker with its 
solid crimson head and neck, its blue-black back, and the wide white 
band shown strikingly across wings and tail in flight can be recognizee 
anywhere, and its distinctive krit-tah-rah becomes pleasantly familiar on 
its nesting grounds. Under the caption “Are the Red-Headed \\ ooc 
peckers moving west?” Aldo Leopold in 1918, after citing a number o 
instances of their occurrence in New Mexico, made an interesting sug 
gestion, calling attention to the fact that “an examination of a map 
shows that most of the birds were seen on or near transcontinental 
railway lines, which strongly suggests that they crossed the plains y 
Map 16. Red-headed Woodpecker 
Triangles mark all known records to 1926 
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NEW MEXICO 
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