This common desert woodpecker replaces ... to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp. in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus).

When I arrived at the desert field station and stepped out ... She is an ornithologist and author who has studied birds in California.

Deb Haaland: Learn from the past | Miyoko Chu: Desert birds at risk | Scott Weidensaul ... An urban kid from California, I’d never driven this far anywhere, never seen a desert.