Williamson Sapsucker in Monterey County, California
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Winter records of Williamson Sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus thyroideus thyroideus) if plotted on a map of California would form a crescent, beginning with the Siskiyou Mountains in the north, running sonth through the Sierras and extending southwest to San Diego. The only record in west-central California is from Santa Cruz (McGregor, Pac. Coast Avif. No. 2,1901:8). A recent occurrence 50 miles south of Santa Cruz seems worth recording. While collecting in the Santa Lucia Mountains of Monterey County on November 23, 1940, I took a male at 3700 feet. The exact locality is known as Big Pines, 9 miles west of Jamesburg. Big Pines is one of several islands of large yellow pines, surrounded by chaparral, which occurs on the northern peaks of the Santa Lucia range. The specimen is now deposited in the collections of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (no. 80636).
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, January 17, 1941
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Russell, Ward C.
(1941)
"Williamson Sapsucker in Monterey County, California,"
Condor: Vol. 43
:
Iss.
2
, Article 16.
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol43/iss2/16