The Downey woodpecker eats berries of scrubby plants, as well as gypsy moths,
beetles and tent caterpillars. Its nest is a cavity excavated in a dead tree,
with wood chips lining the bottom. Its calls are short flat picks and, unusually,
horse-like whinnying calls.
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker - Apr '03
Red-naped Sapsucker, Williamson's Sapsucker, Ladder-backed, Downy, Hairy,
Northern Flicker - as of '04.
AB reports from San Marcos neighborhood, a juniper grassland 4 mi E of Cerrillos
Hills
Downy Woodpecker - April '03.
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