WOODPECKERS: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAIRY 
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Range. —Apparently resident, except for vertical migration, in Canadian and 
Transition Zones of Rocky Mountains from British Columbia, east of Cascades, 
eastern Washington, Montana, and western Nebraska south to northern New 
Mexico and Utah. 
State Records. —Ranging north to the northern boundary of the United 
States and beyond, the Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker breeds south to north¬ 
ern New Mexico, and specimens representing this form have been taken at Oak 
Canyon in the Raton Range, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, September 1, 1903 
(Howell); Willis, April 22, 1900 (Birtwell); Pecos Baldy August 3-15, 1903, at 
11,000 to 11,600 feet (Bailey); [distributed over the entire Sangre de Cristo region 
from the yellow pine belt up (Ligon, 1919)]; noted near Koehler Junction, September 
17, 1913 (Kalmbach); Lake La Jara, 7,800 feet, September 19, 1904 (Gaut). [At 
Lake Burford fairly common and nesting, May-June, 1918 (Wetmore).] It was 
noted at 7,500 feet near Glorieta July 7-10, 1903, and in Santa Clara Canyon of the 
NEW MEXICO 
Scale of Miles 
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Map 21. Hairy Woodpeckers 
1. Rocky Mountain Hairy. 2. White-breasted Woodpecker. 3. Chihuahua 
Woodpecker- Shaded areas show general range. Triangles mark yearlong 
records of mainly resident forms 
