Diet Overlap

Melozone fusca (Canyon Towhee)
Liomys irroratus (Mexican spiny pocket mouse)

Common Diet

Opuntia robusta var. larreyi (Wheel Cactus)
Opuntia streptacantha var. pachona

Common Habitat

Bajío dry forests
Central Mexican matorral
Chihuahuan desert
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
North America
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Tamaulipan matorral
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Seed 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.