This small range hugs the border west of Sasabe, Sonora. The Baboquivari Mountains gradually diminish at their southern end, just before the border, where the Pozo Verde Mountains pick up–being somewhere between small mountains and large hills.
In the San Luis Mountains south and southwest of Arivaca.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife hereby formally petition the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (also “Service”) to list one of the following entities of cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl: 1) the Arizona distinct population segment (“DPS”) of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl; 2) the Sonoran Desert DPS of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl; or 3) the western subspecies of cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (G.
These photos are of Echinomastus erectocentrus var. erectocentrus (Needle-Spined Pineapple Cactus) near Vail, AZ.
