This singular bird with parrot bill, carmine and gray dress, graces the lower Rio Grande Valley where Merrill says its charming presence is a relief from the universal gray landscape of winter, while in Spring their liquid queet queet queet from a mesquite top is an invitation to take to the open.
NEST: Small, compactly built of twigs, bark strips, grass and lined with fine grass and fires.
EGGS: 3 to 4; pale bluish white, spotted with brown and lavender, wreathed at large end.
Southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and western Texas.
A tree, sometimes 100 feet high, distributed on mountain slopes from islands of British Columbia southward thru Washington and Oregon to the Santa Lucia Mountains of California.