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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
male: Similar to adult male but red only on crown, markings less sharply defined. 
Young female: Similar to young male but usually with less red on crown. 
Range. —Apparently resident in Lower and also Upper Sonoran Zones from 
southern California, southern Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and central-western Texas 
south to northern Mexico. 
Map 23. Cactus Woodpecker 
Shaded areas give general range. Triangles mark yearlong records, mainly 
in Lower Sonoran Zone 
State Records. —In the lower parts of southern New Mexico, the Cactus 
Woodpecker is fairly common up to 6,300 feet (Ligon). It breeds here so early 
that young were in the nest May 19, 1886, near Apache [Hachita] (Anthony). 
A pair was found feeding nearly grown young at Santa Rosa June 6, 1903, and thence 
to Montoya the species was common in the juniper belt (Bailey); it was common 
at Los Pinos, June 20, 1864 (Coues); and not rare at Albuquerque July 16-24, 
1889 (Bailey); it is a common breeder among the pinyons at Silver City (Fisher); 
[was observed May 6-10, 1920, in Grant County from Silver City to the Mexican 
