Diet Overlap

Toxostoma curvirostre (Curve-billed Thrasher)
Haemorhous mexicanus (House Finch)

Common Diet

Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro)
Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Bilberry Cactus)
Neobuxbaumia tetetzo
Opuntia robusta var. larreyi (Wheel Cactus)
Opuntia streptacantha var. pachona

Common Habitat

Amistad National Recreation Area
Arizona Mountains forests
Bajío dry forests
Balsas dry forests
Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve
Big Bend Biosphere Reserve
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central Mexican matorral
Chihuahuan desert
Chiricahua National Monument
Coronado National Monument
East Central Texas forests
Edwards Plateau savanna
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Fort Davis National Historic Site
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Jornada Biosphere Reserve
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
North America
Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve
Petrified Forest National Park
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda
Reserva de la Michilia
Reserva de Mapimi
Saguaro National Park
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Sevilleta LTER Site
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sinaloan dry forests
Sonoran desert
Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
Tamaulipan mezquital
Texas blackland prairies
Tonto National Monument
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
Western short grasslands
White Sands National Monument

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1How Important are Columnar Cacti as Sources of Water and Nutrients for Desert Consumers? A Review, B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Rio, Isotopes Environ. Health Stud., 2003, Vol. 39(1), pp. 53-67
♦ 2Effectiveness of Dispersal of an Ornithocorous Cactus Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Cactaceae) in a Patchy Environment, Mónica G. Pérez-Villafaña and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, The Open Biology Journal, 2009, 2, 101-113
♦ 3THE ROLE OF SEED DISPERSERS IN THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE COLUMNAR CACTUS NEOBUXBAUMIA TETETZO, HÉCTOR GODÍNEZ-ALVAREZ, ALFONSO VALIENTE-BANUET, AND ALBERTO ROJAS-MARTÍNEZ, Ecology, 83(9), 2002, pp. 2617-2629
♦ 4Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals, Mario González-Espinosa and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (eds A. Estrada & T. H. Fleming.), pp. 273–284. Dr W. Junk, Publishers, Dordrecht.